Re: Oral apraxia or dysphagia

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Hello Carole

Glad you are here looking for info!! I am just a mom of a beautiful 3.9 year

old oral & verbal apraxic son. had reflux as a infant. He lost weight

from birth to about 4 weeks of age. He could not breast feed successfully.

Then when we gave him formula everything would run out his nose??? The doctor

that I took him to at the time missed the boat on everything. When would

nurse I would never hear the suck, suck, swallow like the other babies. It was

as though he could not coordinate the sucking, swallowing & breathing all

together. was born 3 1/2 weeks early. To this day gags real easy.

The slp tried to do a feeding evaluation on him recently by putting peanut

butter just inside his mouth & he just about tossed it! Even brushing his teeth

can cause him to gag. As a baby would choke on just about everything.

Don't know if any of this helps, I am sure some of the professionals can give

you some great info.

Best wishes,

Tammy I. mom to 3.9 apraxic, 6 next week, 17 stuttered

severly as child, 21 in 3 weeks

----- Original Message -----

I am a graduate student in Speech Language Pathology at East Carolina

University Distant Education program and have a question. I am doing

a research paper on dysphagia and my question is: Can oral apraxia

affect the swallow? All the information I have found says that oral

apraxia does not affect the non-speech activities performed with the

muscles such as coughing, chewing or swallowing. Can you enlighten

me on this topic.

I would appreciate any information you have.

Thank you,

Carole