0307, 2018

Executive functioning home intervention

Laura Smith
July 3, 2018
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Executive functioning (EF) deficits are a common comorbidity with a variety of conditions including: ADHD, OCD, ID and others just to name a few.

Visuals are AMAZINGLY helpful for children with EF dysfunction. The problem is, most teaching involves auditory input. The teacher (or parent) talks, children listen, and learning takes place. For kids like my daughter, who have a language processing impairment, the teacher (or parent) talking is basically the equivalent to the teacher in the Peanuts comic series. All the children hear are “wah wah, wah wah wah wah.”

1606, 2018

Apraxia as a symptom to a bigger picture

Laura Smith
June 16, 2018
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The problem is SLP’s and parents are so focused on the speech and not looking at the big picture in early development. There is this thinking that if we could just overcome the apraxia, everything will be OK.

2505, 2018

Report cards are bittersweet with special needs

Yeah so that report card. It kinda makes me sick. I have to work up to reading it and it usually takes a couple of weeks.

2205, 2018

Diagnosis, Disability, and Finding your Tribe

However, we have our people now. We have our tribe. We have others who understand. They understand that sometimes you are in such a state of deep grief you can do nothing else but cry and cannot face the world that day.

1605, 2018

An open letter to the well meaning “I’m here for you.”

Laura Smith
May 16, 2018
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Let this Apraxia Awareness Month and Mental Health Awareness Month not just be a crazy coincidence, but a reminder that everyone on this planet is experiencing joys, fears, heartaches, and love and that is simply this thing called LIFE. Beyond the “I’m here for you,” let’s let this month be a chance for us to show it through our actions.

1405, 2018

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

Laura Smith
May 14, 2018
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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.

SLP Mommy of Apraxia