Please welcome Jenn Soehnlin, who attended the 2013 summer CHAMP Camp at George Washington University with her three-year-old son. Thank you Jenn for sharing your experience with us today! When my little kiddo was two and still completely non-verbal, you can bet I was doing a lot of research online. I stumbled across Tori’s blog …
Please welcome Suzy, a friend from my local apraxia Facebook group, who is joining us today to give all the details about the recent CASANA conference. First I want to thank Tori for asking me to share my experience at the 2013 CASANA National Conference. I have been following Tori for quite some time …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
Last week we concluded our regular six month testing and Jake may be moving out of an apraxia diagnosis and into something less severe. The tests proved my own assessment of his speech – his errors are now consistent and age-appropriate. Yay! His progress in six months time has blown me away. While we are …
Passion. Raw. Knowledge. Fierce Love. Powerful. Selflessness. Unstoppable. Determined. Confident. Movers and Shakers. These are just a few words that come to mind when I think about The Thinking Moms, the words they write, their Revolution, and their new book that was just released this month. I read a lot of books and what I …
In February, April was a guest writer on my site and now she is joining us again to share some book recommendations. If you happened to miss her original post, this is how it started … I have spent the last 3 years trying to understand why my daughter, Alessandra, has speech and language …
Disclaimer: SpeechBox provided me with a free copy of this app to review. I was under no obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a giveaway. When the developer of SpeechBox contacted me a couple of weeks ago and asked if Jake and I would like to try out his new app, I was …
Special thanks to Henry K., developer of the iPad app SpeechBox, for joining us today and for sharing the inspiration behind his app … Have you ever experienced a moment in your life that embarks you on a journey that seems scary, appears utterly challenging, and instills fear for where it may lead you? That’s exactly …
Jake's Journey with Apraxia 