At 27 months old, Jake began speech therapy with our local state program. Each week the SLP would come to our house for thirty minute sessions and she would sit across from him on the floor and she’d attempt to capture his attention. Sometimes she whipped out a toy from her own bag of tricks, …
On Tuesday morning after Jake and I got home from speech therapy, we baked some gluten-free chocolate chip cookies, which he critiqued as being “nasty.” That’s a pretty descriptive adjective for a kid who has a limited vocabulary. I glanced around at my kitchen, mixing bowls adorning my counters, flour settling into the black and brown …
Today my plan was to endorse how important preschool is for our kids with apraxia. After all, I’d been mentally planning it for months now. What else would I talk about when tomorrow night is orientation, Wednesday Jake meets his new teacher, and Friday is the first day of school? I also thought I’d be giving …
Today Jenny Sanzo is joining us again for Part 2 of her experience with Nancy Kaufman’s SPEAK program that she and her son Colten attended this summer. If you missed Part 1, click here to read. Thank you again Jenny for taking the time to share your story with us. In addition to Colten’s therapy …
“Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up…. Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break.” – Derived from Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 When I started …
After nine months of working with the Kaufman Treatment Kit 1, Jake has finally graduated to new sounds. Although I love these cards and fully understand the importance of repetitive practice, I was more than ready to move on. As I mentioned in recent posts, we are now practicing /l/, /f/, /s/, and /z/ words. …
Last week a moment that I had been anticipating for months finally arrived. On Wednesday my husband and I took Jake to see a physician that specializes in pediatric integrative medicine. All the months of prayers, googling, researching, reading, emails, calls, and comments on blog posts had all led us to this decision. I am …
Jake's Journey with Apraxia 