When you have a blog, you can actually see how many hits you get per day. You can also see if people stayed to check out other articles, or if they moved on. You can see your most popular search terms, and can see your most popular posts. My blog averages about 110 unique visitors per day. To me, that is a success. I know that parents and SLP’s
Ever since I met Ronda Rousey May 29th, 2015 – the response I received from my post has been my most popular post ever by far! Since that time, I went on to read her book and became more inspired than I could have ever imagined. Though she didn’t mention her speech impediment was apraxia in her book, I still had her promise from that night, saying she would
Our story is much like many other families’ stories. A relatively quiet baby, the missing “mama” and “dada,” the doubt creeping in. For us, it was easy to know that something was off. Our little Emmett is the youngest of six. We knew how this all worked and something wasn’t working here. After five typical and healthy children, when Emmett was 18 months old we had our first experience of
When I first started in the field, I actually had not set out to be an SLP. It seems crazy to me now since I can’t imagine doing anything else, and it seems especially crazy since I not only think about speech everyday, but I think about apraxia even more. If I’m not thinking about apraxia or something apraxia related, it doesn’t last long. No, I was working at a
Why I Will Walk for Children with Apraxia of Speech on September 19th. by Linda Power Many kids get medals in school and on sports teams as recognition of their abilities relative to peers. More subtle, but no less deserving, are the achievements made by our children with special needs. Such is the case with our 3 year old son Ashton, who was diagnosed with severe apraxia of speech last
It started with an intriguing title: Ronda Rousey: The World’s Most Dangerous Woman, and then a picture of a James Bond beauty type. … Now, I normally wouldn’t click on stuff like this, but today I had a day off, the kids weren’t fighting, and I thought, okay…sure. Let’s see. A beautiful James Bond girl is the most dangerous woman in the world? Sure. Let’s read about this. And then