I was filling out Ashlynn’s Small Steps in Speech Grant Application tonight sparing myself plenty of time since it is due tomorrow! It’s always surreal to play the part of parent like this: stressing out, frantically collecting documents, invoices, cost verifications, reports, insurance denials and more only to turn around and provide therapy for parents who are doing the same thing. It’s always an awkward position to be a sounding
A couple days ago I received frantic text messages, emails, and private messages to all my social media accounts. My heart started racing so fast as I read them: “Hi, I know you don’t know me, but my name is Jaime Hunt and your husband has been having an affair with me. Please call me back. If you don’t believe me, check your phone records. I’m so sorry, I didn’t
Before Ronda’s last fight, I tried to rally our apraxia community to participate in a hashtag campaign showing our suport. You can find the post here: Why I fight: Inspiration from Ronda Rousey I have actually had that post hidden until tonight since at that time, Ronda had yet to say she had apraxia and I was getting a lot of backlash from people who didn’t really seem to see
Original appeared 9/13/15 My husband’s sister was married last night. Ashlynn was the flower girl and like any flower girl, she absolutely adored all the attention. Ashlynn can speak now, and speak well where most people understand her. If she’s at a loss for words, she’s smart and falls back onto one of her scripts, her most favorite being, “what are you doing?” She’s smart like that, because it takes
Original post appeared 10/5/2015 We all went to a pumpkin festival over the weekend. My kids had a blast riding the wagon, picking out their pumpkins, drinking apple cider, and their favorite……dancing to the band. It was a bluegrass band with a standup bass, a fiddle, a guitar, and the occasional banjo. My kids loved dancing and when songs came up they knew like “Skip to my Lou” and “Shoo
Original post first appeared 10/1/15 In all the hype and excitement our community gained from learning Ronda Rousey had CAS, one very important piece was left out. This piece, was her mother. Ronda is a living, breathing, symbol of hope for our community. She speaks beautifully in interviews without any hint (except maybe to a trained ear) of apraxia at all. She has been in movies and on talk shows