Eleven years ago, the world celebrated the first ever Apraxia Awareness Day on May 14th, 2013! After receiving a diagnosis of apraxia in 2012 for my daughter, this day was just what I needed! Apraxia Awareness Day posts flooded my social media feed. Instead of feeling my usual worry, I felt happy and uplifted. Everyone was making social media posters of their littles with CAS. It literally soothed my soul.
Apraxia Awareness Month is May of 2024! The first EVER Apraxia Awareness Day was recognized only 11 years ago on May 14th, 2013. Right on the heals of Ashlynn’s diagnosis in 2012, this day filled my cup! Each year since it has grown bigger and bigger! One thing that’s a MUST is to wear your apraxia awareness gear! For a short time, my store is offering shirt sales through April
It’s been over eleven years identifying as a parent to a child diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech. I’ll never forget that fateful day. I missed her apraxia as an infant, despite being a speech/language pathologist before she was born. I knew she was delayed. Oh yes, I was keenly aware of it. Every well-check visit the list of milestones she was meeting grew shorter and shorter. I worked with
The Denver Fall Apraxia Festival is coming back this October 7th 2023. This event is a fundraising event to benefit The Apraxia Foundation, a newer 501(c)3 founded by an individual with CAS named Jordan Levan. Since I came on the apraxia scene back in 2012 when my daughter Ashlynn was first diagnosed, I have seen the culture around apraxia change, and for the better! When Ashlynn was first diagnosed, I
Poke-a-dot books I am absolutely OBSESSED with the Poke-a-Dot books! I recently had a few new clients with a high interest in dinosaurs, so I knew the Poke-a-Dot dinosaour book was a MUST have for the clinic. While I was at it, I decided to also “add to cart” the Poke-a-Dot Old MacDonald and the Poke-a-Dot Goodnight Animals. You can never have too much of a good thing right? If
Join me for my first episode in Season 2 of the SLP Mommy of Apraxia Podcast as I talk to Breanna Waldrup, speech/language pathologist and director of the private non-profit Child Apraxia Treatment. We talk about her role as the director of the foundation, it’s mission statement and elements of Dynamic Temporal Tactile Cueing (DTTC) for the treatment of CAS.