parenting Posts

Jun 30, 2013

My daughter Erica was diagnosed with verbal apraxia in 2009. Since then she has been going for speech therapy weekly and then monthly. We were at her regular monthly session a few weeks ago when I was taken back by something her speech therapist, something that I was so amazed ...

Dec 20, 2012

It has been several years since my daughter was diagnosed with apraxia. At one point we never knew if she would be about to talk but with many hours of hard work and hours and hours of Professional speech therapy she has turned a new corner in her life with ...

Sep 27, 2009

While I am by no means an expert in Apraxia, I have certainly been learning a great deal since my daughter was diagnosed with it. Here are some of the things I have learned. People have no clue what Apraxia is. I can understand that, I did not either until my ...

Mar 27, 2009

I know a lot of people stress out about being a parent, and they even use that as an excuse to not have children. I will admit that being a parent is the most challenging thing I have ever done, but I have never particularly stressed out about being a ...