Apraxia Monday: A Day Late and A Dollar Short, Dealing with Conferences
By Leslie Lindsay I know, I know I am late with my usual “Apraxia Monday” blog and here’s why: it’s conference time around here …which really means the kiddos are home from school, thus decreasing my writing time. But I have some good news and bad news: the conferences went off without a hitch. With one tiny little exception. (image source: http://www.huntsville-isd.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=2997834&pageId=10156746) This time. Let me just back-track a bit to one of the very first parent-teacher conferences we ever attended. It was near Thanksgiving of that year. My husband and I were all set for our annual trip to St. Louis where we spend the holiday of thanks. The minivan was packed, the kids ready. One last stop: Miss Lisa’s classroom for conferences. At the time Kate was 3 1/2 years old. She was in the school district preschool for “severe apraxia.” She had only a handful of words in her vocabulary, and some of those weren’t really words at all…more like sounds and approximations in conjuction with a gesture that we knew meant *something.* We walked into the …