For SLPs: Breastfeeding and future speech?

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--- DMon98 <dmharrison98@...> wrote:

> >

> I don't know if a child can have oral apraxia but

> not verbal apraxia.

> My guess is yes but these are children who with oral

> motor therapy

> catch up rather quickly.

>

> I am not an SLP (I just play one on TV--ha ha) but

have had the oral/verbal apraxia discussion a few

times with different professionals. The majority

consensus is that oral and verbal apraxia are two

separate and distinct conditions. The way I was told

to draw the distinction was oral apraxia is the

inability to coordinate the necessary muscles to

produce sounds. Verbal apraxia is having (some)

muscle coordination but a child is unable to handle

certain consonant sounds or combinations, etc. I don't

think there is a significant change in treating the

" different " apraxias. Since my son has been diagnosed

with both oral and verbal apraxia, I, too, would be

interested in SLPs' comments on this. It seems to me

you should have one or the other but not both.

Jim

>

>

> >

> > the speech path told me that when the parents do

> the oral motor

> activities

> > in the new born period they don't' have to come

> back later for

> speech

> > therapy.

> >

> > Roxanne

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