Jan Snedaker

Jan Snedaker is a certified special education teacher, literacy specialist and a writer with a website called An Ideal Mom (www.anidealmom.com). She is also a mother of an amazing daughter and an incredible son (featured in this article), who by the way, never stops talking!

The image shows a child receiving early intervention for verbal apraxia, a motor speech disorder.

Verbal Apraxia: After Early Intervention

Since my son’s initial diagnosis of verbal apraxia three years ago, I have cried three times a year. This usually occurs around evaluations, meetings, and one other random moment in …

Verbal Apraxia: In Introduction to our diagnosis

Verbal Apraxia: An introduction to our diagnosis

As a baby my son was a talker; he babbled, cooed, and screeched loudly bringing smiles to our faces. We would laugh joyously as he yelled, “ba ba ba” at …