If you follow my facebook page, you probably already saw our HUGE news! Ashlynn came home from school this week with a note and award that said she had successfully verbally named EVERY single letter AND letter sound. It’s nothing short of amazing. Ashlynn has been working soooo hard and for YEARS. YEARS! She deserves it soo much. We bought ice cream for her and let her eat it
We always hear about mama bears. Okay, maybe it’s just me, but I guess I am one. Daddy bears don’t have quite a good a reputation. Daddy wolves though. Watch out. Read about them. You do NOT want to cross a daddy wolf. My dad is a daddy wolf. I found a definition online that read, “Male wolves are attentive, monogamous and fiercely protective dads that live with their
Once upon a time, there was an 18 year old girl who received a full ride scholarship to her local metro university. She took public transportation to get there since she couldn’t afford parking, and simultaneously worked 30 hours while going to school full time. Each day she walked onto the train, she wasn’t sure she would actually receive her bachelor’s degree, but she decided she would take it day
This is what Ashlynn has said to me twice today. It’s rather timely since I just wrote about a post about letting our kids know they have apraxia so they have a name for the problems they experience. Ashlynn (I thought) has known she has apraxia, but I realized I said it a lot when we were still just trying to get her words out and her sounds right, but
Global Apraxia is a hell of a disorder. I’ve written before that though at times it has been a blessing, I don’t believe I will ever quite forgive it. Despite a child having the will, they have to work, and work, and work to find the way. Though they have things they want to say, they can’t always say it. Though they have things they want to do, they can’t
Thanks to funding from Small Steps, I have Ashlynn back in therapy with her private SLP, who is also my mentor and now friend. The other night she was updating me on her progress and what happened in the session. I take my daughter to her house, so occasionally her husband or dogs may walk by and apparently distract Ashlynn. She was remarking on Ashlynn’s ability to hold a pretty