Those familiar with my story know that I missed apraxia in Ashlynn because I was convinced she had CP (cerebral palsy). She had a significant birth history and had to be pulled out via C-section and all of her motor milestones were late. Tummy time was a nightmare. I was always so stressed about it because she literally seemed like she was suffocating and couldn’t pull herself up for air.
More than two years ago now, I had a client come to me who was 3 years old. My husband met his mom waiting in an OT office for my daughter Ashlynn, and over the course of a few months he saw that this child wasn’t making any progress with words. He struck up a conversation with the mom and asked her if she had ever heard of apraxia. She
The challenge today for apraxia awareness month was to recognize a teacher making a difference.
Two years ago I wrote a post called, “Speaking in scripts with a story in her eyes.” The point of the post was to describe how Ashlynn who was in Kindergarten at the time was speaking in sentences, and her apraxic component of her speech was resolving (meaning she had all of her speech sounds and could articulate them in the correct order), but the language processing disorder that accompanied
Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover book companion
“Together we are going to beat apraxia.”