Let’s Link Up for Apraxia Awareness Day 2015
My daughter loves Post it Notes. LOVES them. She loves writing some small scribble on them and then proudly sticking them up around the house to put on display. Today we drew pictures that included her target sounds to work on speech, but we also drew shapes to work on our pre-writing strokes for OT….
“Lord woman. We need a jet airplane, a case of wine, and a few days to ourselves. We are living parallel lives.” I received this text today from a mom I have never met, but who I feel I must have known my entire life. I found her through the marvel and wonder of the…
Would it surprise you then if I told you the prevalance rates for Down Syndrome are 1-2 children in every 1000 births. Sound familiar? Maybe that’s just because I just wrote that figure for CAS.
Original post appeared 10/5/2015 We all went to a pumpkin festival over the weekend. My kids had a blast riding the wagon, picking out their pumpkins, drinking apple cider, and their favorite……dancing to the band. It was a bluegrass band with a standup bass, a fiddle, a guitar, and the occasional banjo. My kids loved…
If you follow my facebook page, you probably already saw our HUGE news! Ashlynn came home from school this week with a note and award that said she had successfully verbally named EVERY single letter AND letter sound. It’s nothing short of amazing. Ashlynn has been working soooo hard and for YEARS. YEARS! She…
The great thing about speech and language, is that it a task that can be worked on in any activity. Familiar routines in the home provide the perfect platform for encouraging speech and language, because this “routinized language” is predictable and context based. A fellow SLP and mommy of apraxia, Kim from Landonjourney.blogspot.com and I…