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Hi, my name is Karla and I have a 2 year old little girl named Jenna.

She is currently enrolled in the Early Start program through our county for

speech and yesterday her speech therapist told me she shows some signs of

having apraxia of speech.....so off I went to research what this means.

I enrolled her in early start because she was almost 2 with only 2 words

(mama and dada). She never babbled, never used jargon, and her receptive

language skills are way ahead of her verbal. She now has about 17 words, but

not all of them can be understood and she never uses 2 words together....as a

matter of fact, she hardly uses any of her 17 words...just once in a blue

moon and they all start with B, N, M or Y. If we ask her to say something,

she usually wont even try, it is like she doesn't know how. She does however

do anything we ask, or if we ask her to say something that she knows the sign

for, she will sign it. Luckily she has learned about 20 signs...and that has

helped her communicate with us. I have just started to notice she is getting

angry and frustrated again with things she can't yet communicate. She has

had her hearing checked and that is fine. She makes eye contact and is very

social.

She is 2 years old and is only 20 1/2 pounds.....she has been a very picky

eater from day one. She is just now starting to eat a little better, so we

are hoping she will catch up in the growth department.

Well, just wanted to introduce myself. Please pass along any information you

think I should have at this stage. I called our health food store and the

man suggested B vitamins and Flaxseed Oil...anyone know if these work? He

said that the Omega 6 show better progress in boys and girls need the Omega

3.

Thanks,

Karla

Mom to

Jackie, , Jenna and Kamryn