Re:29 mo. child just diagnosed as apraxic-like

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What did your doctor advise to strengthen the trucal muscles. My daughter also

sits

in this manner, but I never thought anything of it (beyond, wow is she

flexible).

She's a very strong little girl and *can* sit with her legs outstretched, but

now I'm

wondering. She does have mild SI issues, mostly involving too much noise,

activity,

new situations. We are nowhere near a neurodev. ped., unfortunately, but are

seeing

an OT. Is that the professional who is working on your son's truncal weakness?

Thanks,

Barbara

Rothweiler wrote:

> Hi -

> I would suggest taking your daughter to a neurodevelopmental pediatrician.

> In my experience and also from reading people's posts, I find that they are

> the best physicians to treat our children. A Neurodev. Ped. looks at the

> whole child from a global perspective and will see things that many other

> doctors and parents won't look at. I too, thought my son " only " had verbal

> Apraxia. After seeing a neurodev. ped. I found out that he did have

> hypotonia and sensory integration issues. This was discovered by subtle

> signs that I would never have picked up such as the way my son sat in a W

> pose. He would sit on his but with his legs bent like a W to balance and

> strengthen him better because his truncal muscles were not strong enough.

> My son also would freak out when I tried to brush his teeth or hair, cut his

> nails, refused to wear any shirts with tags on it. I thought he was just

> being difficult. It actually turned out to be sensory integration. There

> were other things but my point is, if there's no problem, then great, but if

> there is, then go to a person with the correct experience to find it early

> so that you can begin to address it now. Just my thoughts...

>

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> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:47:29 -0000

> From: " rmbr1961 " <romanowiczr@...>

> Subject: 29 mo. child just diagnosed as apraxic-like

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> My youngest child (29mo.) was just diagnosed during a supplemental

> speech evaluation as apraxic-like. She has many single words, but

> can only say the first sound in those words (e.g. up is " uh " and

> apple is " ah " ) and sometimes she has problems with the begining

> sound. Blend sounds are completely beyond her at this time. She has

> been receiving speech therapy since 19 mo. when she could say " ma "

> and gutteral sounds, but was making slow progress so I requested the

> supplemental evaluation. She will now be receiving speeech 5x/week

> and my question is where should I go from here. I am as sure as I

> can be that she has only verbal apraxia. The speech therapist

> checked her for oral apraxia and her physical abilities both fine and

> gross motor control are above age level. Should I take her to see a

> neurologist? I am concerned that if he finds nothing wrong they

> might cut back her speech which she so desperately needs.

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[Guest guest]

Hi Barbara,

My son also has low tone in the trunk area. It is being adressed by

an OT. Some things we do is wheelbarrell walking where he walks on

his hands while I hold his feet and trunk off the ground. You can

make it fun by having her try and pick up items along the way.

Increase the length of time. We also try and get sounds out.

Another fun activity which is also good for other SI issues are

bouncing on a therapy ball. You can buy those huge ones in Toys-r-us

for about $10 instead of mega-$$ out of some catalogs. She also has

him sit on the ball and bounce for balance and then maybe reach all

the way back and then come up. Almost like a sit-up. She also does

stuff where she'll have him reach for an object while crossing mid-

line.

Hope this helps!

denise

--- In @y..., Barbara Eckert <borjeckert@m...>

wrote:

> ,

> What did your doctor advise to strengthen the trucal muscles. My

daughter also sits

> in this manner, but I never thought anything of it (beyond, wow is

she flexible).

> She's a very strong little girl and *can* sit with her legs

outstretched, but now I'm

> wondering. She does have mild SI issues, mostly involving too much

noise, activity,

> new situations. We are nowhere near a neurodev. ped.,

unfortunately, but are seeing

> an OT. Is that the professional who is working on your son's

truncal weakness?

> Thanks,

> Barbara

>