Brain plasticity changes in children receiving PROMPT therapy for children with idiopathic apraxia of speech!
2708, 2013

Brain plasticity changes in children receiving PROMPT therapy for children with idiopathic apraxia of speech!

A research article in Brain Topography: A Journal of Cerebral and Dynamics, has a published a new study that demonstrates actual brain plasticity in the brains of children diagnosed with idiopathic apraxia of speech after undergoing intense PROMPT training.  According to the article, it’s the first study of it’s kind to demonstrate “experience dependent structural plasticity in children receiving therapy for speech sound disorders. I’ve been waiting for this kind

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Lessons from a tricycle
2508, 2013

Lessons from a tricycle

We bought a tricycle for Ashlynn three months before her third birthday. My husband and I took her to Toys R Us, excited, full of hope and expectation. I had seen two-year old children on Facebook gleefully riding their trikes with big goofy smiles on their faces, and I couldn’t WAIT to snap that happy gleeful face on my little girl. Pregnant with my son, we all left the store

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1008, 2013

Ashlynn update 3.10 years

Ashlynn is in a regular preschool this year with about 15 other kids.  Most are typical with about six on IEP’s.  I asked the SLP if she was talking at all in the classroom, and she looked at me like I was crazy and then answered “yes?”  I presumed it meant she was surprised that I didn’t think Ashlynn was!  In the Spring, Ashlynn was still gesturing and pointing in

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“Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out. I want to see, I want to see you be brave.”
0708, 2013

“Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out. I want to see, I want to see you be brave.”

I heard a new Sara Bareilles song the other day.  I love music, but I really felt like this song was written for A.  It’s been a struggle to get her words out.  Even now, the other day at the park she was talking to a little girl appropriately saying ‘come on” and “let’s go again!”  It sounded more like, “tum on!” and “yet do adain” but she was DOING

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0906, 2013

Switching private SLP’s

There is no easy way to “break-up” with an SLP, but  I made the decision to discontinue private services through the SLP that was seeing Ashlynn.  A lot of parents wonder what is the best way, and I don’t think there is a right or wrong way.  I personally just wrote an email and said I was switching her to my mentor. I am very appreciative of all that she did;

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She is the definition of perseverence (a poem)
2405, 2013

She is the definition of perseverence (a poem)

You went to speak, but the words wouldn’t come, Stuck in your brain,  so easy for some. You went to crawl with the best of intents, Yet your body didn’t know what your brain meant. You went to walk, big smiles and all, yet every time you tried, it ended with a fall. You went to drink from a big girl cup You would sputter and spit till it came

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