My friend Kim, (a fellow apraxia mom and SLP) and I talk a lot about how most people, including professionals and pediatricians, just have NOT SEEN global apraxia. What is global apraxia? Well, it’s not an official diagnosis. You’re not going to find it in the DSM 5, and when you google it, you’re not going to find some great scholarly articles. Nope. Instead, you can google Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Pronoun subject/verb agreement FREEBIE I needed an activity to work on subject pronouns and has/have this week with a few kids, so I made these activity sheets to go along with the Thanksgiving theme. Visit my TpT store now to get it free, and please leave a comment or rating! Also, don’t forget to follow me so you can get notified first thing of any sales, other
I had Ashlynn’s Fall parent-teacher conference for this, her last year of Pre-K. The teacher gave me a HUGE packet for Pre-school standards for my review, and said she didn’t need to go through all of it. Um…okay. She showed me a picture Ashlynn had drawn the first day of school of a person with her name on the paper, and then another current picture of a person
So today I took Ashlynn to her 5 year checkup at the doctor’s office. Her pediatrician is one I met at a pediatrician’s office, but who decided to go work at a family medicine facility. I love the pediatrician, but having her housed in a general practice creates some challenges….such as today. The regular physician assistant was out on vacation, so another one was there to fill in. Though she
I started at a new school this year, and since I specialize in CAS, the other SLP in the building gave a second grade student who has Childhood Apraxia of Speech to me. Not surprisingly I liked him immediately; just like I liked all the other kids with CAS I’ve had the honor of treating who came before him. I’ve only known him for about three months, but he is
Two years ago, I wrote a post entitled November book of the month. At that time Ashlynn was just starting to imitate really well, and I used this repetitive book with her to have her work on the CV shape “pie.” Fast forward two years and here we are. Ashlynn can now say most of the Thanksgiving items in this book, she just has a hard time with word recall and
