A departure today from apraxia, but all the talk about the Duchess Kate and how she looked has been eating at me. What message are we sending? Why are women everywhere feeling bad about themselves?? I was eating lunch with my kiddos the other day, and I was scrolling through facebook. The Duchess Kate just gave birth to a baby girl, and the internet was buzzing about how hours later
Exactly 18 months ago, I wrote one of my favorite and initially most popular posts: Lessons from a Tricycle. At that time, Ashlynn was close to 4 and still could not pedal a tricycle. I describe how we bought it a couple months before her third birthday when I was pregnant with my son. A year later, I wrote that post and explained that she STILL wasn’t able to
Apraxia is a journey. Speech apraxia is a journey, but global apraxia? Even MORE SO. So many skills to work on. So many things to improve. So many negative prognostic indicators to plow through. The good news is that Ashlynn doesn’t know anything about prognostic indicators. She doesn’t know how heavily loaded she is in the negative column. Not yet anyway. When I first had her receive services she was
I don’t know why I am obsessively thinking about prognosis lately, but I am. I am required to give a prognosis when evaluating children. I’ve had to stare at a prognosis in my own child. I received a prognosis once. I was seventeen and I balled my eyes out in my mom’s car. I was a senior in highschool, a starter and captain of the girl’s basketball team when my
We went on a Santa Train again this year at Georgetown Loop Railroad. Ashlynn has never talked to Santa before. When she was 3, she cried and clung to her dad for dear life. When she was 4, we went on a different Santa Train, and though she wasn’t scared, she was too reserved to say anything audible enough for him to hear. This year a four year old girl
So today I took Ashlynn to her 5 year checkup at the doctor’s office. Her pediatrician is one I met at a pediatrician’s office, but who decided to go work at a family medicine facility. I love the pediatrician, but having her housed in a general practice creates some challenges….such as today. The regular physician assistant was out on vacation, so another one was there to fill in. Though she