Let’s Link Up for Apraxia Awareness Day 2015
Please feel free to add your link about any apraxia related blog post. Let’s Link-Up for CAS awareness! An InLinkz Link-up
1005, 2015
0805, 2015
Ignorance is bliss, but Awareness is POWER
Ignorance is bliss. Yes, yes it is. I can tell you this from personal experience. If ignorance is bliss, what is hindsight? Oh right, yes, I know. Hindsight is 20/20, meaning looking at events afterward seem so much clearer than in the moment. That much may be true. I was going through some old home movies. Our 10 year wedding anniversary is coming up, and I guess I was feeling
0505, 2015
Word FLIPS giveaway!
Day 5 leading up to Apraxia Awareness Day on May 14th has me offering a giveaway for Word FLIPS by Super Duper Publications. Word FLIPS can be a useful and handy tool to use with kids who have apraxia. It allows practice for simple CV syllable shapes for up to 3 repetitions. It also allows for combining combos to form other bisyllabic words i.e. tie+knee = tiny. I usually give
0405, 2015
Anything but Silent book review and giveaway!
I’m continuing on with Day 4 of giveaways leading up to Apraxia Awareness Day on May 14th! Today I am reviewing the book ANYTHING BUT SILENT by Kathy and Kate Hennessy. Kathy Hennessy is the mother to Kate who has pure CAS and another son Andy who has global apraxia and SPD. The book rotates chapters from Kathy’s point of view to Kate’s point of view. First of all, I
0405, 2015
Real women are beautiful too
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
0305, 2015
Interview with “Speaking of Apraxia”
Hi Leslie! I’m so happy to have you. I want to start by asking, what made you decide to write this book? Oh, I am happy to be here, Laura. I won’t pretend that SPEAKING OF APRAXIA was in any way ‘easy,’ but it did sort of present itself to me…in the form of my oldest daughter! I may have been a first-time mom, but I was also a child/adolescent