I saw this necklace on another blog and I loved it. When it was time to get a gift for my daughter’s SLP, I went to this shop on etsy and customized the perfect piece! Melissa from HandMadeLoveStories agreed to donate one to my raffle to support apraxia awareness day! Enter below and if you are chosen, you can tell me what you would like it to say and I
Keeping up with our giveaways, next up is Dot Articulation from Speech Corner. I use this book all the time with a variety of different speech disorders. It’s a great way to get multiple productions in a fun and motivating format. It has reproducible worksheets targeting 19 frequently articulated sounds, including blends. For my kids with apraxia, there are blank sheets in the book for you write in your own
Speech Racer is a relatively new app from Complete Speech. I first tried this app at the ASHA convention in December. I was amazed at how it utilized visual feedback based on the quality of a /r/ sound within various positions of words. It can be used for both iPhone and iPad. You can choose between four different meters that provide visual feedback on the accuracy of the /r/
May is Better Speech and Hearing Month, and The fourth Annual Apraxia Awareness Day is May 14th. I’m offering giveaways on my blog that will be given away on May 14th! First up is an app I literally use every week called Speech Stickers. Speech Stickers is the first app that I downloaded for Ashlynn (my daughter with apraxia) when she had first turned three. I chose it because it
I just gave a talk at Bowling Green University this past week. Since the talk was to undergrads, I talked about my serendipitous journey to becoming an SLP, and why I am a firm believer in listening to “coincidences.” The talk then culminated with my story about meeting Ronda Rousey. For my final slide, my takeaways were to believe in serendipity and to listen to coincidences. Life is more eerily
Being both an SLP AND a mother to a child with a severe speech disorder, I have this unique and sometimes bizarre perspective; that perspective, of course, being that I now intimately understand both sides. That being said, I think parents/my clients, typically feel more comfortable telling me things parent to parent vs. parent to SLP. As a mother now to a child with apraxia, I have a new appreciation
