I’m continuing on with Day 4 of giveaways leading up to Apraxia Awareness Day on May 14th! Today I am reviewing the book ANYTHING BUT SILENT by Kathy and Kate Hennessy. Kathy Hennessy is the mother to Kate who has pure CAS and another son Andy who has global apraxia and SPD. The book rotates chapters from Kathy’s point of view to Kate’s point of view. First of all, I
A departure today from apraxia, but all the talk about the Duchess Kate and how she looked has been eating at me. What message are we sending? Why are women everywhere feeling bad about themselves?? I was eating lunch with my kiddos the other day, and I was scrolling through facebook. The Duchess Kate just gave birth to a baby girl, and the internet was buzzing about how hours later
Hi Leslie! I’m so happy to have you. I want to start by asking, what made you decide to write this book? Oh, I am happy to be here, Laura. I won’t pretend that SPEAKING OF APRAXIA was in any way ‘easy,’ but it did sort of present itself to me…in the form of my oldest daughter! I may have been a first-time mom, but I was also a child/adolescent
I’m keeping up the momentum now until May 14th, offering giveaways and prizes in honor of Apraxia Awareness Day! Next up is the app Speech Stickers. Speech Stickers is the first app that I downloaded for Ashlynn (my daughter with apraxia) when she had first turned three. I chose it because it was cheap, and said it was developed for children with apraxia. The app is simple in design with
I’ve been down lately. Really, really down. It pretty much started at Ashlynn’s re-evaluation meeting and went downhill from there. For all the work she’s done, for how far she has come, for what she knows in the face of so many challenges, it was like a slap in the face. It’s really not anyone’s fault. It’s just the way it is. I’m dealing with mixed expressive/receptive language issues now.
Today is May 1st, which marks the beginning of better speech and hearing month! More importantly though, the Third Annual Apraxia Awareness Day is May 14! To celebrate, I’m offering giveaways all month for apraxia related products. First up are the immensely popular Kaufman DVD and Instructional Kit 1 COMBO. This kit was honestly instrumental in helping my daughter cross the bridge from being a nonverbal, ineffective imitator, to