Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live is iconic. It’s woven into the tapestry of American Culture. Weekend Update anchors tell the news and current events, but with a twist of humor. Colin Jost has been a weekend update anchor since March of 2014, but a writer for SNL since 2005. In his new book, A Very Punchable Face, Colin outlines in great detail a speech disorder he has that has
Sensory issues are a common co-morbidity to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Certainly my daughter with apraxia stemming from a genetic mutation has her own! In this post I’m going to share some various sensory related issues we have had throughout the years and strategies that helped. Sitting in Circle Time In preschool and even into Kindergarten, Ashlynn had a very difficulty time being able to sit in
We are currently in the middle of the COVID 19 pandemic. I think it’s week 4. I’m not sure. Time blurs. I was feeling it yesterday. The weight of it all. Not being able to leave the house. All the closures. Working from home while teaching my children and doing their assignments with them. The unknown about when this will end. All the cancelled events. I wrote last night I
We are in the middle of a pandemic called COVID 19. History books will write of it, and you will have remembered living it. The Corona Virus – or COVID 19 put the world to a stand still. Never before in the history of my lifetime or even your grandparents lifetime had the world come to a stop as it did in 2020. Everything you could imagine was cancelled. Basketball.
I found a few resources online as to places that may potentially fund speech therapy, but many were dead ends. For that reason, I compiled I guide that I have personally verified to help fund speech therapy.
It started with 5 little words. “I hope I did GREAT!” my ten year old daughter with about every learning disability possible said yesterday in the car. She was referring to her report card after her younger brother had pulled his out of his backpack and celebrated for getting all 3’s. With this new grading system, kids are given a number of 1-4. No one really gets a four because