Emily Goughnour

I am so grateful for the lessons I have learned from my Apraxia journey. These lessons include: resilience, hope, courage, and the importance of celebrating the small victories.

Apraxia taught me resilience, when people didn’t understand me or when I was struggling with a specific sound it taught me to keep trying and to look for new solutions. Apraxia taught me to always have hope, even when it feels like it will never get better as long as you keep trying and have hope there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. Apraxia taught me courage, even when I’m scared and worried about failure I can still do hard things. Apraxia taught me the importance of celebrating the small victories: sometimes the big victory is months or years away, it’s important to recognize the small things that went right and celebrate them!

-Emily Goughnour