When Ashlynn was in preschool, there was a sweet girl in her class I’ll call J. Her mom and I hit it off right away. Her mom is currently a stay at home mom, but she was a teacher before that. We have similar ideas on parenting, discipline, and just raising kids in general. We had a few play dates and the girls got along great. Her daughter is typical
One more follow up to my last story about my dear friend who has passed. You can read about that here: Under the Influence. Goodbye Sarah. RIP Many highschool friends, most highschool friends, remain just that. Friends you had in highschool. But sometimes, if you’re lucky, one of your highschool friends turns out to be a sister. As it turned out, I was one of those lucky people. When the
A departure post from apraxia, but I would be remiss if I never publicly wrote about the death of one of my best friends. Today, January 20th 2016 I received this text: “She is dead!!!” What did you think when you read that? Then you can’t even imagine what I thought. That “she” is my best friend since I was 14. I’m 35. That means that “she” was a girl
We all know Childhood Apraxia of Speech is rare! The odds then of having a mother who is an SLP? Probably substantially rarer right? When I first started on this journey, I knew of none. Now I know at least 30! We have a unique perspective for sure, and I wanted to team up with two other moms to tell you what we do in our own homes with our
Thanks to the internet, I went from feeling I was the only SLP mommy of apraxia in the world, to meeting one other, to now knowing many others! One year ago, I teamed up with one of them to write “Strategies to Promote Speech and Language in the minimally verbal or pre-verbal child with suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech.” Today, I’ve teamed up with two other SLP moms
It has been awhile since I posted directly about Ashlynn’s speech. Once we all started to understand her, it didn’t seem as pressing anymore. Her dyspraxic components (gross and fine motor skills) definitely started to take precedence. However, she is still in speech for a reason, and that reason being percentile ranks well, well, well below average. Ashlynn is 6 years and 2 months. She can say every single sound
