Apraxia Stars That is what we as the CAS community have come to refer to our children with apraxia. I was able to attend my first Walk for Apraxia in Denver today as a mother first supporting my daughter, but also as an SLP walking for my clients, two of which came today. Aren’t they cute? Ashlynn started to get the idea this day was all about her when she
Today I am excited to introduce Tonya from TherapyFunZone! Thank you for agreeing to guest blog today Tonya! Please tell us a little bit about yourself! I am Tonya, and have been a pediatric Occupational Therapist for 23 years. I have worked with a huge variety of kids and diagnoses in my career as an OT, and have worked in a clinic setting, inpatient acute, inpatient rehab, early intervention, and
I am absolutely thrilled to introduce Sharon Gretz as my first guest in my September Specialty series! Sharon Gretz is the founder and executive director behind CASANA (apraxia-kids.org), the largest non-profit dedicated exclusively to Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Sharon’s dedication to CAS (Childhood Apraxia of Speech) awareness, support, research, and funding started with her experiences of being a mother to a child diagnosed with CAS. When I first met her,
I’m in a new district, a new school, and with a new bunch of kids this year! One thing I’ve always done the first week is have the kids make their own “speech folder.” Kids love decorating their own folder! I start with a long piece of construction paper that come pretty standard in most schools. I then whipped up three template pages the kids can write on and then
Today was Ashlynn’s official first day to her last year of preschool. It was also two years ago today I heard the words, “Laura, this is apraxia.”
One thing I’ve found, is that as an SLP, finding materials for apraxia can be challenging. This is mostly due in part to the fact that syllable shape and complexity matter more for apraxia than they do for other speech sound disorders. For example, if you were working on the ‘T’ sound and opened a typical articulation workbook, it wouldn’t be uncommon to see a variety of single syllable and