A confession, and a hope for A

A is about to graduate from preschool tomorrow and embark on her Kindergarten experience.  She is ready and excited.  Her preschool teacher this year is retiring, and what a teacher she was!  Ashlynn mimicked and learned SO much from her.  I can’t even begin to start with all the things Ashlynn has learned.  This woman set everything to a tune paired with some large gross motor movements, and the combination

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Ignorance is bliss, but Awareness is POWER

Ignorance is bliss, but Awareness is POWER

Ignorance is bliss.  Yes, yes it is.  I can tell you this from personal experience.  If ignorance is bliss, what is hindsight?  Oh right, yes, I know.  Hindsight is 20/20, meaning looking at events afterward seem so much clearer than in the moment.  That much may be true. I was going through some old home movies.  Our 10 year wedding anniversary is coming up, and I guess I was feeling

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Interview with “Speaking of Apraxia”

Interview with “Speaking of Apraxia”

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

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Why we’ll never stop working

Why we’ll never stop working

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.

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Still we rise

Still we rise

I received all of Ashlynn’s reports from her re-evaluation.  I knew it would be hard.  It’s hard to read those scores and things about your baby.  However, I was also proud.  So proud of how far she has come.  She is the hardest working child I know.  The social worker and special education teacher seem to understand her the best.  They listed her strengths, which are many.  They were thoughtful

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