apraxia /sounds

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as promised I will post full verbal/oral motor program , but wanted to just

post this for now...

when we were ' laying the tracks' getting those singular positions down,

something and I have no clue why we ever did this, but am sure glad we did.

I am sure EVERY consultant would shudder at this and speech path too, but

for some reason when all else failed this bizarre thing worked...

sounds that were nearly impossible for my son were b " buh " , g " guh " " t " "

tuh " " p " puh we still are working on final T position.

the ONLY way my son learned how to to these was in fast repetition.

eg say " buhbuhbuhbuh " so rather then isolating and placing tounge or lips

for single sound he would produce this babble of sound, but somewhere in

those three to four sounds he managed to spit back at us the sound we were

looking for emerged.

I don't know if its that his brain suddenly was hearing the actual ' sound'

remember that brain only has about 1/8 of a second to register it....so

perhaps it was the third buh that actually was heard " by the brain " ....

I don't know if it would work for other children , it did not seem to

confuse my son, because we only did this at the table and usually did oral

motor exercises at the same time.

He now has all of those sounds, but I believe at least three actually came

to fruition using the fast repetition method.

oh and I tell you it seems almost every parent with an apraxic says the same

thing about getting that tounge up.

my son too, I use marshmellow fluff on the roof of his mouth to strenghen

that muscle and for tounge up we litterally held it up for him for two to

three seconds so his ' brain' could ' register' that placement and ' feel '

it. marshmellow fluff is a good alternative to peanut allergic children and

mf is GFCF.

norrah