1405, 2018

The 6th apraxia awareness day brought smiles, tears, and a jaw dropping moment

What I learned today was our kids with apraxia are going to be okay.  Empowering them with knowledge and giving them a platform to educate and be their true authentic selves is going to be the winning formula.  Beyond resolving or not resolving, having residual effects or not, empowering our kids with knowledge and then giving them the opportunity to educate is going to change the world.  It really is, and I know our kids may struggle in school, but they are going to win in LIFE. 

Resiliency: A letter to my child
2202, 2018

Resiliency: A letter to my child

Sometimes in life, or maybe many times, you will feel like life has backed you into a corner. You will feel at times like giving up. You might listen to a little voice inside your head telling you lies. You will know they are lies when they say anything except how you have greatness within you.

Going off script, overcoming her language disorder
0902, 2018

Going off script, overcoming her language disorder

Two years ago I wrote a post called, “Speaking in scripts with a story in her eyes.”  The point of the post was to describe how Ashlynn who was in Kindergarten at the time was speaking in sentences, and her apraxic component of her speech was resolving (meaning she had all of her speech sounds and could articulate them in the correct order), but the language processing disorder that accompanied

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