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Apraxia Monday: Whew–it’s wearing me out!

By Leslie Lindsay It’s been a long time coming.  This apraxia thing is wearing me out.  Here’s the deal:  when my daughter wasn’t talking like every other Carson, Chloe, and Caden I was beside myself.  When I was told by the first SLP who saw her that she had “a delay,” I was scratching my head…well of course, she does, but what do we do about it?  When I was told by the second SLP that she had childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), I wanted to know what the heck is that?!  And then I wanted a book about apraxia–a real book that I could hold in my hands and reference when I felt like I needed it.  I didn’t want to sift through everything on the Internet (now isn’t that ironic?!) And now that my daughter has come a long way from when she was first diagnosed, I am still eating, thinking, and breathing apraxia.  I get emails about it, I send emails about it, I get connected to others all around the globe …