All posts tagged: prosody

Apraxia Monday: Prosody and Volume Control with Guest Becca, CCC-SLP

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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 …

Apraxia Monday: Word Study

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By Leslie Lindsay Each day, I am reminded that my daughter has apraxia.  It’s not so apparent anymore.  Her speech has really developed since she was diagnosed way back when (she’s 6 now), her vocabulary is huge–even if she doesn’t articulate so well.  But, there was a time when I knew absolutely nothing about speech pathology.  Nothing. Fast-forward 4 1/2 years and I know waaay more about speech pathology than I ever, in my wildest dreams imagined.  In elementary school, there were “speech teachers,” whom some of my classmates would see on occassion.  Later, I learned these folks were actually speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and I really had no idea they worked anywhere but within schools. Entering High School, there were “speech teachers,” but of a different sort.  These speech  teachers taught speech & debate, improvisational theater, radio & television broadcast…all of which I was involved with when I was a student. And then, I had a baby (some years later).  And this baby grew to become a non-verbal toddler.  And she was diagnosed with speech apraxia (CAS).  …