For quite some time now, I have been thinking of doing intensive speech therapy for Jake. While this journey has been filled with many ups and downs, we are finally in a new phase of apraxia … recovery. If I could turn back the clock, here are the questions and answers that I wish I …

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“Jake! Jake! Say it! Say it!” My neighbor’s teenage son, Jackson, and his friends were enthusiastically shouting to my Little Man when I walked in their front door. We had been back from Arizona for about a week and my neighbor, the Pre-K 4 teacher, had volunteered to watch Jake for about an hour while …

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If you are a regular reader, you know that I decided at the end of 2012 to sign Jake up for a week of intensive speech therapy with Lynn Carahaly at Foundations Developmental House in Chandler, Arizona. Our time to visit this revolutionary SLP finally came last week and after visiting FDH, I feel like …

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