All posts tagged: helping children and familes with CAS

Apraxia Monday: Kate visits Small Talk: All About Apraxia

By Leslie Lindsay A few weeks ago, I was busy preparing for my Small Talk:  All About Apraxia group.  It was our first night and I needed a little help stuffing the folders I had prepared for each participant.  So, I did what any good–over-scheduled mom would do:  I enlisted the help of my children.  “Why not?”I thought.   After all, it’s because of my daughter that I even have a group dedicated to helping other parents of children with apraxia.  So, Kate Riley and I sat down and stuffed folders. About half-way through, she looked up at me and said, “This looks important, is this your job?”  Well, yes.  I suppose it is.  Depends on how you define “job.”  I don’t get paid to do this–at least not in the typical  dollars and cents kind of payment–but I do get some kind of payment for my services…it comes from helping others.  It comes from a smile on their face, or a kind word of appreciation.  It comes when they tell me that they took the next …

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 …