So tomorrow is the culmination of my experience and chance meeting with Ronda Rousey. I honestly cannot believe my one encounter and subsequent blog post went viral and has now landed us on the national stage that is Good Morning America. When Ashlynn was dx, I remember being grief stricken that although I had tried to work with her for a year, she still remained largely silent. I remember thinking
Original appeared on 10/12/15 Oh apraxia. Oh global apraxia. I have said before if someone wanted to do a checklist on paper I could make a strong case for my daughter having autism. She doesn’t of course, but one item evaluators love is “restricted interests” or “perseverative behaviors.” If your child is demonstrating one of these then someone somewhere will start to suspect autism. Luckily for my daughter, she has
There have been critics to my Ronda story, most voicing their displeasure on how she is not a good role model for kids. She swears, has done nude photo shoots, fights people for a living, or whatever. My intention for Ashlynn is not to look at anyone’s faults or judge their decisions. My intention for Ashlynn and all the other kids out there was to see that someone not only
Ashlynn had her Kindergarten baseline test of sorts two days ago. They get data on her letter names, letter sounds, phonemic awareness skills, and number sense. I sat in the back while she sat a table with the her new teacher, looking like an official Kindergarten student. It was quiet and she was 1:1 without distractions. She named almost all of the uppercase letters correctly. I could see her really
When you have a blog, you can actually see how many hits you get per day. You can also see if people stayed to check out other articles, or if they moved on. You can see your most popular search terms, and can see your most popular posts. My blog averages about 110 unique visitors per day. To me, that is a success. I know that parents and SLP’s
At the risk of turning off people with another Ronda Rousey post, I debated not writing this. However, I’m a writer, and in times of thought and reflection, a writer must write. I was more than shocked to realize not everyone shared my same vision and hope from my Ronda Rousey story. I guess I was naive. Either way, I started to feel down but then I realized something. I
