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Apraxia needs recognized


Editor,
I am the proud mom to two children at Lake Don Pedro Elementary.
May is Apraxia Awareness Month, and Mariposa County has declared May 14 as Apraxia Awareness Day.
Imagine living in a world where you knew what you wanted to say, and you understood your peers perfectly well, but you could not say what you thought using the spoken word? That is what it’s like for the one to two in 1,000 children who have apraxia of speech.
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a rare neurological speech diso...

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