This is a little late, but I see private clients on Saturday and I needed an activity to go along with the book “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick,” by Lucille Colandro. As you probably know, I usually incorporate repetitive books into therapy as a way to provide vocabulary in context, but to also have the kids participate by having a part in the book to
Exactly 18 months ago, I wrote one of my favorite and initially most popular posts: Lessons from a Tricycle. At that time, Ashlynn was close to 4 and still could not pedal a tricycle. I describe how we bought it a couple months before her third birthday when I was pregnant with my son. A year later, I wrote that post and explained that she STILL wasn’t able to
My friend introduced me to an AWESOME website call “The Mighty.” During the month of March, they challenged readers to write an open letter to a disability that a loved one faces. I have no idea if I’ll get accepted, but hey, at least I have a blog. For as much writing I do about apraxia, it was definitely high time to talk to apraxia myself. Hello apraxia. Hello global
I can’t remember a time since I learned to write that I stopped writing. I was the girl with diaries, journals, writing pads, and notebooks filled with writing. Obviously now, I continue to write. There was a time though my writing was noticeably absent. I recently scoured my notebooks and old blogs searching for what I wrote around the time of Ashlynn’s diagnosis and came up empty. I had many
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, I whipped up a subject pronoun has/have verb agreement activity that the kids love! Laminate, or just print and glue, all my little kids love it, and you’ll love it too, because it’s free! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!
There have been times in my career that I have instantly connected with kids I first meet. Usually, time is spent building trust and rapport, which would be expected really. However, there are rare times when the connection is instantaneous. The first time this happened to me was with a Kindergarten boy who had apraxia. He was nonverbal, anxious, and highly sensitive. I had just come off of maternity leave,