by Sam, Contributing Writer No way!!! Has it really been an entire year since we visited CASANA? It went by in a blink. When I look back at the ambition and optimism at that moment, my immediate thought is that it went by so quickly, I didn’t even have time to be sure we stayed …
Jake is the baby of our family … the youngest of three boys. Although Jake wasn’t diagnosed with apraxia until age three, he began speech therapy when he was a little over two years old. And even as a baby, before I knew the threat of a speech disorder loomed in the distance, my life …
Today Jenny will be updating us on her son’s progress with apraxia. The last time she was a guest writer on Jake’s Journey was the summer of 2012. Welcome back, Jenny! Can it really be almost two years since I first shared our Apraxia journey with all of you? We have come a long way, …
This post initially published on the Speaking of Apraxia blog. I shared it to give parents hope. My son Jake was diagnosed with apraxia of speech at age three and has been in speech therapy since he was 27 months old. Jake began Pre-K 4 this year at our local church preschool and one month …
Last week my family and I went to Blue Mountain Beach in Florida. Travelling with kids in general can be far from the R&R we all so deserve, but when you have a special child, a whole extra set of challenges (and laughs!) come about. Here are a few of ours … 1. Cuteness … …
When I was a senior in college, me – the very studious, organized journalism student – made a very bad mistake. I returned to my apartment at about 7:00 on Sunday night after being home for Thanksgiving Break only to realize that I had mixed up my exam dates. The test I had studied for was …
Over the past few months, our SLP Katie and I have been trying to sharpen Jake’s auditory memory skills at the recommendation of Lynn Carahaly. Jake has consistently scored low on sentence recall and auditory memory tasks, so we have added some of these activities to our regular speech therapy sessions. A memory and brain …
It’s that time of year when the temperatures start cooling down and all of us moms begin settling into a back-to-school routine. Jake’s Pre-K 4 program started the last week in August, so he has been in school for about a month now. This morning on the way to school, we practiced his “song of …
Jake's Journey with Apraxia 