Apraxia

I love the way kids are so willing to love my son for who he is. I was watching him and his teammates today at baseball thinking how wonderful the world would be if we were all little kids playing baseball.

Thank you Dan for making Including Samuel. In a way, I feel you made it for my wife and I to help us along our journey. I'm sure other parents and guardians have and will feel the same after watching such a superb description of societies failure to fully integrate the last truly segregated subculture of our time: those with disabilities.

I'm so excited to be attending the USD screening of Including Samuel tonight with my wife and oldest son. We all hope to gain a better insight into what the world has to offer my middle son.

When will he talk? When will he be able to initiate communication beyond wants? When will we know he is getting the right education for him? These are only a few of the questions my wife and I are dealing with. Apraxia is such a crazy issue, because he fully understands what you are saying to him, and he is able to communicate back with some garbled words, gestures, and/or sign language; but, only my wife and I know exactly what he is communicating. How will he communicate with others so they can understand?

Many may not know that I have three kiddos at home whom I love more than life. My middle has been diagnosed with this thing call Apraxia. Even though there are 563,000 hits on Google as of this writing, I still feel totally lost in this process.