We went to Vegas for Spring Break, and we took the the kids to see the Blue Man Group. I had heard great things about the show in my parent support groups, so I thought it would be the perfect show for my kids. Ashlynn has a formal dx of SPD, and my son, well, he definitely has sensory issues. Not sure if they fit a formal dx or not,
We went on vacation for Spring Break. I took a picture of me and my girl on an amusement park ride: She told me the chairs we were sitting in were “penguin chairs.” Two years ago she couldn’t do that. Mark a noun with an adjective like that. Adjectives let us be creative with our speech. She barely had the basics down, but I was still happy then because she
When I was in 1st grade, a little boy kept kissing me on my head. After the third time, I told my mother in exasperation. I explained that even though I kept telling him to stop, he still kept doing it. That night, both my parents had decided my mom would go to school the next day and let the teacher know and put a stop to it. “Nooooo,” I
I practice person-first language. I make sure I use it in every setting. If you’re not familiar with person first language, it’s the idea that you put a person *before* their disability. The idea is that when we put the disability first, we define a person by their disability. However, no person is defined by their disability. A person is just…..a person first. So, instead of saying that bipolar guy, you
I think one thing, well actually I KNOW one thing I never knew about CAS before Ashlynn, was the significant difficulty kids with CAS tend to have with word finding. Ashlynn and all of my clients struggle with this to varying degrees. Sometimes, Ashlynn’s seem innocent. She’ll call me grandma after she’s been with her grandma all day. She’ll say “today” when she really meant “tomorrow,” or say “tomorrow” when
I realized in the entirety of my blog, I have never even once addressed oral motor exercises, aka mouth exercises, or now being touted as oral placement therapy; in the treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech. The “why” is actually very simple. Massive amounts of research consistently demonstrate they are ineffective in the treatment of speech sound disorders. In graduate school I had to do a paper on their ineffectiveness
