Apraxia Monday: Prosody and Volume Control with Guest Becca, CCC-SLP
By Leslie Lindsay with Becca Jarzynski, CCC-SLP Happy Halloween!! It’s hard to believe it’s the end of October already. I’ve been saving the best for last as I introduce Becca Jarzynski, CCC-SLP who hails from Wisconsin, is a mother, and a pediatric speech pathologist. Be sure to check out her blog, http://www.talkingkids.org. She shares her insight on children with apraxia and prosody and volume control. Both of which are concerns I have noticed in my own daughter, and from what I understand you, too have some of the same questions and concerns. I’m turning it over to Becca now: If you have a child with apraxia of speech, chances are you’ve spend a long time working very hard on getting your child to beunderstood by others. Your little one has struggled to first make sounds, then to bring those sounds into syllables; from syllables into words, and from words into sentences. When you finally arrive at the long anticipated goal of having a child whose speech can be understood by others,you all cheer (as well you …