What was it that Bill Cosby always said? Kids say the darndest things or something like that. Unless of course, you know, they don’t because they have apraxia of speech and can’t even say the most basic things. Or this that I just ran across: Unless of course, they don’t because they have Apraxia When Ashlynn was born, I wondered what her personality would be, the funny things she would
Ashlynn has been saying things lately that are really showing higher level thinking. You’d think this would be glaringly apparent to me, but it really IS crazy how much language gives us an idea of what is going on in their brain. She’s been VERY interested in her schedule, and where she is going the next day. I still haven’t made our visual schedule, but it’s on my to do
Ashlynn said her first “trick or treat” on command at the age of four. At three…she had an approximation, but then she froze when we went trick or treating. Many people were polite and kind, not demanding she say something for her candy. Others though, sat indignantly at the door waiting for “the magic words.” Because Ashlynn’s strengths lie in social skills, she was always able to charmingly muster up
Today I am honored to introduce Ruth Stoeckel, nationally recognized expert and published researcher on Childhood Apraxia of Speech. I first saw Ruth Stoeckel speak back in 2005 when she presented in Colorado. The packet she handed out during that talk helped me greatly in those early years when I was first learning about how therapy for apraxia is very different than therapy I had been doing for other speech
Apraxia Stars That is what we as the CAS community have come to refer to our children with apraxia. I was able to attend my first Walk for Apraxia in Denver today as a mother first supporting my daughter, but also as an SLP walking for my clients, two of which came today. Aren’t they cute? Ashlynn started to get the idea this day was all about her when she
I am absolutely thrilled to introduce Sharon Gretz as my first guest in my September Specialty series! Sharon Gretz is the founder and executive director behind CASANA (apraxia-kids.org), the largest non-profit dedicated exclusively to Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Sharon’s dedication to CAS (Childhood Apraxia of Speech) awareness, support, research, and funding started with her experiences of being a mother to a child diagnosed with CAS. When I first met her,