Since Childhood Apraxia of Speech requires a different approach to treatment, principles of motor learning theory need to be driving therapy. You can read more about this in my two interviews: Sharon Gretz interview and Ruth Stoeckel Interview Since getting 100-200 reps per session can be tedious and difficult to keep new and fresh, I came up with this fun Halloween game to play while you work on the child’s target sounds.
What was it that Bill Cosby always said? Kids say the darndest things or something like that. Unless of course, you know, they don’t because they have apraxia of speech and can’t even say the most basic things. Or this that I just ran across: Unless of course, they don’t because they have Apraxia When Ashlynn was born, I wondered what her personality would be, the funny things she would
I made my first companion pack today to go along with the book, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams. This book is awesome for speech. I use it for elementary school children, but also read it to my young kids and they are spellbound. The pack includes a sequencing, describing and following directions activity related to the book. The book is a repetitive
Ashlynn has been saying things lately that are really showing higher level thinking. You’d think this would be glaringly apparent to me, but it really IS crazy how much language gives us an idea of what is going on in their brain. She’s been VERY interested in her schedule, and where she is going the next day. I still haven’t made our visual schedule, but it’s on my to do
When a child starts school, a range of emotions can be present in BOTH the parent and the child. When Ashlynn started preschool at three years old, she had only ever been watched by family. This was fortunate for us because since she was essentially nonverbal for her first three years of life, my husband and I knew we wouldn’t know if someone hurt her or abused her. Conversely, we
Ashlynn said her first “trick or treat” on command at the age of four. At three…she had an approximation, but then she froze when we went trick or treating. Many people were polite and kind, not demanding she say something for her candy. Others though, sat indignantly at the door waiting for “the magic words.” Because Ashlynn’s strengths lie in social skills, she was always able to charmingly muster up