I have a client who is usually brought in by her dad who drops her off and then waits in the truck. Last night; however, he followed us back to the therapy room and asked to talk with me.This normally reserved, stoic man had fear and sadness in his eyes. He told me had just seen his wife briefly and she was crying. She had a meeting with the school
In the Fall of this year, Ashlynn’s teacher decided to do a weekly show and share with the kids. I LOVED the idea and jumped at the opportunity to work closely with the school SLP to help Ashlynn be successful. At first, she just stood up there and didn’t say anything, so I sent a list of questions each week that we had practiced and that Ashlynn only had to
This was one of the first speech apps for apraxia that I bought. It was enticing because it was a good price and the description looked much like a digital version of the Word FLIPS book I was using in therapy. It starts with a screen that allows you to pick a CV consonant/vowel group, seen below. For the purposes of this review, I chose the top group BPM. You
There was a time, a time not long ago but that seems like almost forever now, that when someone asked me Ashlynn’s age I immediately became defensive. “Why?” you might ask yourself. Seems like a typical question among moms in that age group.It is……….. until your child is delayed. Then that game isn’t fun anymore. Every time the question was asked, I found myself rounding down. When she was almost
Big, big news today. Almost as big as when Ashlynn said a final /k/ for the first time. Today, she has her first ever /s/ blend! /S/ blends are a common error with speech kiddos; however, typically developing kids usually acquire them by three and half years at the latest. It was with “spider” in the Little Critter books. We are making progress!
Ashlynn is 4.5 years old. Though as a baby she never really had a problem latching or drinking out of a bottle, she eventually showed signs very early of oral apraxia. I remember looking at some teething biscuits and the box saying it was for 9 months and older and thinking, “are they for real??” She’ll choke on that!!”I remember my sister-in-law talking about babysitting my niece when she was
