Spring 2019 Semester of Speech

I had a lot of snow days this winter so was able to meet Zack's speech clinicians, Sam and Alyssa, and watch them in action. The first day of the semester, Alyssa administered the Apraxia Battery for Adults (aba-2. I looked but was unable to find a sample online. The test costs $165, which I …

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Finding words through others’

One of my favorite movies is Finding Forrester with Sean Connery and Rob Brown. Near the end of the movie, Connery's character, William Forrester, is at Brown's character Jamal Wallace's prep school defending his writing. To explain a prior indiscretion, Forrester says, "I helped him find his own words by starting with some of mine". This …

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