A is about to graduate from preschool tomorrow and embark on her Kindergarten experience. She is ready and excited. Her preschool teacher this year is retiring, and what a teacher she was! Ashlynn mimicked and learned SO much from her. I can’t even begin to start with all the things Ashlynn has learned. This woman set everything to a tune paired with some large gross motor movements, and the combination
Ignorance is bliss. Yes, yes it is. I can tell you this from personal experience. If ignorance is bliss, what is hindsight? Oh right, yes, I know. Hindsight is 20/20, meaning looking at events afterward seem so much clearer than in the moment. That much may be true. I was going through some old home movies. Our 10 year wedding anniversary is coming up, and I guess I was feeling
Hi Leslie! I’m so happy to have you. I want to start by asking, what made you decide to write this book? Oh, I am happy to be here, Laura. I won’t pretend that SPEAKING OF APRAXIA was in any way ‘easy,’ but it did sort of present itself to me…in the form of my oldest daughter! I may have been a first-time mom, but I was also a child/adolescent
I’m keeping up the momentum now until May 14th, offering giveaways and prizes in honor of Apraxia Awareness Day! Next up is the app Speech Stickers. Speech Stickers is the first app that I downloaded for Ashlynn (my daughter with apraxia) when she had first turned three. I chose it because it was cheap, and said it was developed for children with apraxia. The app is simple in design with
I’ve been down lately. Really, really down. It pretty much started at Ashlynn’s re-evaluation meeting and went downhill from there. For all the work she’s done, for how far she has come, for what she knows in the face of so many challenges, it was like a slap in the face. It’s really not anyone’s fault. It’s just the way it is. I’m dealing with mixed expressive/receptive language issues now.
“Lord woman. We need a jet airplane, a case of wine, and a few days to ourselves. We are living parallel lives.” I received this text today from a mom I have never met, but who I feel I must have known my entire life. I found her through the marvel and wonder of the internet, and in only a year’s time, I feel I know her life story….not because