Who diagnoses Childhood Apraxia of Speech?
Parents wonder who diagnoses Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Parents wonder who diagnoses Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Hi readers! I haven’t been as active on the blog as usual because my goal for 2018 was to write a book and I’m happy to say I completed that goal! My goal of 2019 is for it to be published, so we will see! In the meantime, I did manage to get some blogging done and here are my top 10 posts for 2018! Thank you so much for
I only realized after being a part of the special needs community that school SLP’s have a bad rap. Like a really, REALLY, REALLY bad rap. I’m preparing a talk next month for Colorado school SLP’s, and every time I prepare a talk for this demographic, I have to tell you they have a special place in my heart. No, it’s not just because I started as one and
I love Apraxia Awareness Day, ever since I celebrated my first one when Ashlynn was new to the dx. It’s always a time of excitement, renewed hope and resolve, support, and community who comes together filling up facebook and my newsfeed with their apraxia fighters. I’ve been honest and open about telling my own early experience with apraxia, which wasn’t much. I’ve been the first one to admit I barely
Nature versus nurture. It’s a phrase that comes up in my profession, even if it’s unspoken. I’m in the business of child language development, and nothing raises more eyebrows about nurture than a child who can’t talk…. or who has poor vocabulary knowledge…… or is lacking in language skills. Oh it comes up in psychology too. We’ve all heard the stories of twins separated at birth and raised in different
I never thought when I was going through school to be a speech/language pathologist, or when I became a speech/language pathologist, that I would one day have a child who would have apraxia. It’s funny, because before I had Ashlynn, I was still drawn to the disorder. I was highly disappointed about the information that was available on it in graduate school. I think I have a packet of maybe