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Anna's Advancements

Follow Anna's ongoing speech therapy journey with Down syndrome, from oral placement exercises and school transitions to everyday communication victories with TalkTools.

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Anna's Advancements Finding Good Among the Bad At home life with Anna has been quite interesting. It’s been a bit difficult because of course, she has no clue why we can’t go outside anymore. She has no… March 19, 2024 Anna's Advancements Grateful for My Decision It was an emotional, yet joyful month of July as Anna celebrated her golden birthday in quarantine turning five on July 5th.  Around her birthday, I always flashback to the… March 19, 2024 Anna's Advancements Quarantine Tales Continued What have Anna and I been up to during quarantine?  Besides therapy, we actually tried to make the best of our time.  Although before, we were doing activities such as… March 19, 2024 Anna's Advancements New Year with New Improvments Happy New Year!  Since we moved from the East coast a few years ago and since my family is still living in the East Coast, we were able to celebrate… March 19, 2024 Anna's Advancements Reminiscing on Better Times Prior to the worsening of this Coronavirus in February, we were able to take our pre-planned trip to Europe.  The children had a mid-winter break and we took advantage of it. … March 19, 2024 Anna's Advancements Halloween Festivities with Anna Fall festivities! Prior to Halloween, we ended up going to the farm-picking out our pumpkin and painting them which Anna thoroughly enjoyed.  We also went to a pumpkin patch with… March 19, 2024 Anna's Advancements A Day in the Life With Anna I wanted to share with you a day in the life of Anna.  She wakes me up about 6:30 every morning. We start our morning routine with what we call… March 19, 2024 Anna's Advancements A Blessing in Disguise An angel!  Truly, I feel like I’m living with an angel.  However, I have to say, having a child with special needs-not easy!   For some reason, these past 2… March 19, 2024 Anna's Advancements Incorporating Therapy into Everyday Chores “Cutie patootie, Cutie pie,” I say!  This all gets met with a, “I’m NOT a cutie patootie, I’m Anna!”  Oops! Sometimes I can’t help myself. She keeps me laughing a… March 19, 2024 Anna's Advancements Back to Preschool we go! Anna is back to preschool!  Anna loves being in preschool!  She is currently fully immersed in a typical preschool.   So far, she is doing fantastic, except, I do believe… March 19, 2024