Blog Changes

Those of you who have been around the blog for a while may notice I have a new blog header.  My original intent of this blog was to inform and encourage others going through apraxia, and to keep family and friends updated on Kiddo's progress.  That's still going to be happening.  But I'm going to be including Little Brother and his own journey in the blog.  Little Brother has his own sweet apples of gold.  Even if Little Brother was talking up a storm, we would still savor the words, because we know how hard talking can be.  But the truth of the matter is, he isn't talking up a storm.  He definitely has words.  A lot more than Kiddo did at that age.  Not as many as I would like, but they're there.  We're struggling for them, and we're savoring them and I want to document them on this blog too.

So stay tuned: next blog post will include Little Brother and his own sweet apples of gold.  :)

A Guest Posting and The Official Diagnosis

I had the absolute honor and privilege of writing a guest post about our time at CHAMP Camp over on one of my all-time favorite blogs, Jake's Journey.  It was intimidating to write for a blog that has brought me so much information and encouragement, but I am excited to be able to share some of the things we learned with other parents struggling with apraxia.  Feel free to check out the post here, though if you've been following my blog, it won't be anything new.

Also, we got the official diagnosis from our evaluation at George Washington University.  Kiddo has severe verbal apraxia and a mild to moderate receptive (comprehension) delay.  The apraxia I already knew, the severity I had suspected, and the receptive delay I also had my suspicions about, but seeing it on paper is a different story.  But, now that I finally have it on paper, I can send the eval to insurance and they'll (hopefully!) consider speech therapy a medical necessity and give us more than the 20 sessions a calendar year, which we've already used up.  And hopefully the county will also provide more than once a week speech therapy services, now that they have this information in writing.  We shall see.

Starbucks date with the kiddo after speech therapy.  :)

Stay tuned for my post next week about supplementation we've just started doing with the kiddo (other than the fish oil).  We got some awesome recommendations from a doctor who works with children with autism and apraxia and I can't wait to post about it.  :)

Happy August everyone!