A year ago, our son Aiden was barely speaking at all. His vocabulary consisted of about a dozen words and we were teaching him sign language to compensate for his lack of speech. He was diagnosed with Childhood Apraxia of Speech and we worried that he would never speak properly. When he turned three, we negotiated with NISEC...
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We did send out a Christmas letter this year, but I wanted to post it to the web site anyway. Who knows, maybe somebody who isn’t on our holiday mailing list would like to know what we were up to this year? If you’re not on our Christmas card list, and would like to be, please let me know! The “online version” is now...
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Aiden recently participated in a study of children with Apraxia done by The Lena Foundation. Chrissy responded to their open call through the Apraxia Kids web site. The study involved recording everything that Aiden said for three days. They sent us two pairs of overalls, one in a khaki brown and another in a darker...
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Aiden got a tether ball as a prize at the St. James Festival last weekend. It’s literally a ball with a string poked through it; a loop on the other end goes around your wrist. You can throw the ball and it has no choice but to come back to you. Aiden played with it for a bit, but Gavin got more use out of it as a...
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Aiden will be turning three in August, which means that he will be starting pre-school in the Fall. Because he has Childhood Apraxia of Speech, he’s considered to be “special needs” by the school district. This means that there needs to be an Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting to determine the level...
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We noticed that Aiden was not speaking well after his first birthday. We contacted First Steps for speech therapy when he was eighteen months old. It was then brought to our attention that he may have childhood apraxia. Shortly after his second birthday, we enrolled him at the Ludden Speech Clinic at St. Xavier University. ...
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We did send out a Christmas letter this year, but I wanted to post it to the web site anyway. Who knows, maybe somebody who isn’t on our holiday mailing list would like to know what we were up to this year? If you’re not on our Christmas card list, and would like to be, please let me know! The “online...
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Aiden is a smart little boy. He shows good problem solving ability and is able to follow multi-step directions. He has an easy-going nature and is very loving to his baby brother. But Chrissy and I are worried because Aiden has a speaking problem. He used to babble a lot as a baby, but he never quite grew out of that; the...
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