I’ve been brainstorming this month and decided that on Fridays I will share the highs and lows of our week with apraxia. This week has definitely had its ups and downs. On Monday and Tuesday, Jake’s speech pretty much disappeared, which upset me. He replaced all of his words with “mama,” the cure-all word for everything. On …
Only a mother of an apraxic child would dream of the day when her little one can say “no.” I’m sure all mothers will agree that this can be the most annoying word … ever. Especially when it’s often misused by defiant, stubborn toddlers who pronounce the /n/ perfectly in a louder than necessary tone. …
After spending half of November and most of December flying high because of Jake’s speech explosion, last week the familiar feel of fear snuck up on me again. After a laid- back holiday schedule, Jake’s speech regressed and my aggressive mama bear maternal instinct kicked in and I went into instant fix-it mode. My child …
First, God created man, then woman, then babies … and a whole lot of stuff in between. A few centuries later, we also learned that it was in His master plan for babies to speak certain sounds first. This fact may be common knowledge to some people, but to me, I never thought twice about …
This time of year I am forced to clean out the sixty minutes of recording space in my FlipVideo camera and download any keepers into my computer so I can make room for new holiday memories. I had hoped to blog about the ghost of Christmas past and show a video of Jake’s speech from this …
Apraxia. Such a deeply shattering word when you first hear it. It’s a disorder that’s troubling enough to make you fear the struggles that lie ahead of you and yet at the same time, grateful that it’s not something worse. After I googled this word to death and after the diagnosis sank in a few …
Jake's Journey with Apraxia 