Today I am so excited to have Jordan LeVan with us to contribute and tell his story for my growing up with apraxia page! Jordan is a 22-year-old in college studying psychology. I’ve gotten to know him through the magic of social media, where he shares stories about his life and posts informational and inspiring messages about living with verbal Apraxia. You should check him out on Facebook, Instagram, and
Intro and background from Laura Baskall Smith, a Speech/language Pathologist specializing in Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
I thought about how swings go up and down and up and down and how Ashlynn smiles and giggles through it all. I thought about how swings are a lot like life in that way.
Seven years ago I was reeling from my daughter’s new diagnosis of Childhood Apraxia of Speech. I was a member of the Apraxia Kids facebook group online one day in 2013 and a movement had taken place. This was going to the be the first year an Apraxia Awareness Day was officially recognized on May 14th! This day is also in the same month as the American Speech Language Hearing
e look at speech as so important, and it is, but you can live such a full life without being perfect at it. They are going to have talents and skills all their own that have nothing to do with how they talk, and chances are their speech being a little off won’t affect it at all. Support them, be there for them, and be ready to answer questions if they have them, but don’t make their entire life be Apraxia. You can find your voice without talking perfectly; talking is really the smallest part of it.
Parents wonder who diagnoses Childhood Apraxia of Speech