Wow, thank you so much!! I will definitely contact ~m~

[Guest guest]

both of them this week!!

thank you so much!!

>

> Tina below is meeting information for later this month that may

help

> you to find a good therapist.

>

> I know a few people from PA that moved away like Mauri Blefeld.

> Mauri's a very strong advocate for her son Ari and her family was

> also one of the families chosen to be interviewed for the PBS

> documentary on EFAs. Mauri years ago after I started the

Children's

> Apraxia Network came to a meeting and asked me if she can call the

> support group she wanted to start the Children's Apraxia Network of

> PA, and of course I said " Sure! " Mauri's amazing to speak with.

Her

> son Ari was misclassified as having cognitive delays and schooled

> with autistic children. They didn't give him a chance. But once

on

> ProEFA the school, Ari started to talk (think he was around 9 at

the

> time) and the school realized he had the ability -and that's when

> good things started. If you want her phone number contact me off

> list and I'll get that to you. Her family moved to Florida but

> think she still has her PA cell phone number. This is her email

> njblefeld@a...

>

> was from PA too -her family filed a case against the PA

> school district (the school tried to settle) and moved to Georgia.

> Dr. Agin really helped after years of being misdiagnosed

and

> misclassified, and now she's in Georgia working with my son

Tanner's

> EI therapist Zimet CCC SlP on therapies she should have been

> doing years and years ago -but finally is getting the therapy she

> needs to overcome and I hear doing amazing!

> http://www.cherab.org/news/.html Let me know if you want to

> speak with Robin, 's mom or too.

>

> Melinda Kotler who was a friend of Mauris, is from PA too, and

> Melinda started TALK and the Association Method school. TALK

stands

> for " Teaching Apraxic and Language-Disordered Kids " .

> Here's the website. If you contact Melinda Kotler tell her I

> said " Hi! " Melinda's email is MelKot@a...

>

> Here's the upcoming meeting notice for your state and do hope this

> helps for now. You are on the right path Tina and probably someone

> in your school district already knows that you are coming to a

> district near them soon and based on the way you stand up -a strong

> advocate that's for sure! -they'll know not to mess with you! And

> they better not! We're keeping a list from PA and it's enough for

a

> book. Probably better than New Mexico too because the parents

> aren't afraid to be vocal and complain. So perhaps they've

improved

> we can hope. If not -you're in incredible hands with Dr. Agin too.

>

> Children's Apraxia Network of PA

>

> (serving Philadelphia and surrounding areas)

>

>

>

> Happy New Year! We are pleased to announce our first meeting of

> 2006. As always, all are welcome. Our meetings are open to parents

> and professionals.

>

>

>

> When: Thursday, January 26, 2006

>

> Time: 7:00PM

>

> Where: Kencrest Offices (2nd Floor of the Plymouth Meeting Mall

> Office Complex-park on movie theatre side by Boscov's) Address: 502

> W. Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA

>

> Speaker: Sue Caspari, MA, CCC-SLP

>

> Topic: Treatment of Apraxia Using a Motor-Based Approach

>

> (based on research by Edythe A. Strand, Ph.D., CCC-SLP)

>

>

>

> Sue Caspari, M.A., CCC/SLP is a Speech Language Pathologist in the

> Philadelphia area. She has her own private practice, and devotes

> most of her energy to the assessment and treatment of students

> (mostly preschoolers) with motor-speech disorders. In addition to

> her private clients, Sue contracts with school districts and early

> intervention sites, and works as a consultant to families, and

other

> clinical facilities to support the speech and language services

> provided to their clients.

>

>

>

> Sue's background includes over 10 years of working with

> communication impaired adults and children. Her therapy approach

> for children with childhood apraxia of speech has evolved over the

> years and has been refined most recently by the motor-based

> literature on limb movements integral to the work done by Edythe

> Strand, Ph.D. at the Mayo Clinic. This work underscores the

> importance of apraxia of speech as a " motor-based " disorder --

thus,

> the treatment approach tends to be more " movement " based - as

> opposed to " sound " based. Sue has presented on speech and language

> issues related to apraxia of speech at the American Speech and

> Language Associat ion (ASHA) conference, as well as at brain injury

> conferences.

>

>

>

> In addition to her work as a speech language pathologist, Sue has

> been recruited as a software development consultant for speech and

> language based computer software products, including the

development

> of the Earobics product line.

>

> -------------------------------------------------------------

>

> If you plan to attend, please hit reply to this email or contact

one

> of us so that we can plan on enough handouts. If you have any

> questions, please contact us.

>

> Thank you.

>

> Sincerely,

>

> wenobrooks@a... or (610)725-8815

>

> Lia Gorman jimliagorman@c... or (610)296-2330

>

> Helene Teufel hteufel@c... or (267)471-2147

>

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