I am a Speech Language Pathologist. I work for the Anchorage School District. I work primarily with preschool children with communication differences and difficulties such as autism spectrum disorder, phonological disorders, language impairments, cognitive delays, and swallowing and feeding difficulties.
Cheri Fraker, CCC/SLP, CLC is an ASHA certified pediatric speech pathologist and certified lactation consultant. She provides therapy services at The Center for Neuromuscular Services and is the clinic feeding specialist for The Center for Selective Eating and Pediatric Feeding Disorders, a multi-disciplinary feeding team clinic at Kids at Koke Mill. Cheri developed the techniques of...
My husband and I are raising 3 boys in the mid west. We received a prenatal diagosis of Down syndrome with our youngest son who is now 2. He is doing awesome thanks in part to the PT and OT he currenly recieves. We continue to work to get him additional therapies to further his development. Our current foucs is speech.
Mother to 2 kids with the one child being hearing Impaired.I love to blog and upload videos on hearing impairment. The knowledge I have gained is through one of the most special speech therapist Mrs. Alaka Hudlikar. She is in this field for the last 40 years and all her students are integrated into the normal system and are oral.This blog is a tribute to her work and we have been able to help...
My name is Danielle I was born with sensorineural hearing loss due to unknown cause. I was raised by a hearing family. I was in special ed and speech classes my whole life. I know how to speech very well that you wouldnt even notice I was hearing impaired. I learned ASL five years ago in college because my hearing has dropped. I experienced Sudden Deafness in Sept 2008 in my right ear...
I write a blog about the journey we're on raising our deaf toddler, Ethan. He has bilateral cochlear implants and hears fairly well with them, yet he is also apraxic and noverbal, so we are using sign language to communicate despite the fact that he hears. He was born with cytomegalovirus, which has left it's imprint on his life in many ways. We're busy going to PT, OT, speech, an allergist, a...
