Re: new member looking for slp in staten island

[Guest guest]

Hi! One SLP who has been highly recommended to us

from a few sources, including the Autism Foundation of

NY, is Gayle Merrefield. Her e-mail is

MerrefiG@...; she monitors and posts sometimes to

this list. She is giving a speech (no pun intended)

on PROMPT therapy on February 20 at a location in

Staten Island; I don't have the information with me so

I can't tell you where. Contact her; she is extremely

helpful and if she can't take your child on, she will

recommend some of her colleagues to you.

Good luck!

Jim

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> From: <A HREF= " mailto:Garpestad " >Garpestad</A>

> <A HREF= " mailto:Jbmistletoe " >Jbmistletoe</A>

>

Thanks for adding me to your mailing list. This is

> a little new to me. My

> son has not been diagnosed by a doctor, but both his

> home and pre-school

> speech therapist strongly suspect apraxia. I'm

> taking him to a neurologist in

> Manhattan, but I'm also looking for a speech

> therapist/speech-langjage

> pathologist with experience with apraxic children to

> do an independent

> evaluation. Do you have any recommendations?

> Thanks so much. Confused and

> desperate right now.

> Anne Garpestad

[Guest guest]

Go with what the slps say. If he has gone through their language testing and

that's what they both say, believe them. Take a look at this site for resources

and more about diagnosis and who should do it http://www.apraxia-kids.org/ . I

understand your desparation. We've all felt it.

[ ] new member looking for slp in staten island

Subj: Help

Date: 10/02/2002 10:01:51 PM Eastern Standard Time

From: <A HREF= " mailto:Garpestad " >Garpestad</A>

<A HREF= " mailto:Jbmistletoe " >Jbmistletoe</A>

Thanks for adding me to your mailing list. This is a little new to me. My

son has not been diagnosed by a doctor, but both his home and pre-school

speech therapist strongly suspect apraxia. I'm taking him to a neurologist in

Manhattan, but I'm also looking for a speech therapist/speech-langjage

pathologist with experience with apraxic children to do an independent

evaluation. Do you have any recommendations? Thanks so much. Confused and

desperate right now.

Anne Garpestad