Re: [VerbalBehavior] A thought on tongue tied kids who REALLY WANT something...

March 18, 2002

on 3/18/02 8:22 AM, t Burk at pentaburks@... wrote:

> under-diagnosed and under-treated in general. Are there many families on

> this list whose children have both diagnoses? Are there specific therapies

> that seem to help with the dyspraxia? I can't imagine the mental agony of a

> child desperate to speak, but can't coordinate the facial

> musculature.application.

>

That¹s us! It was extremely frustrating to have professionals look at me

like I had three heads when I said Nicolas has apraxia. They¹d go on about

communication problems in autism and I would say, yes, and he ALSO has

apraxia. Finally found a SLP who believed me and saw it in him as well.

There is an excellent program that is very behavioral in its approach that I

would recommend to anyone with an apraxic child:

2070c/UserTemplate/11

That¹s the link for the book but the whole program uses hierarchies of

horns, bubbles and straws. I think they call them ³Talk Tools² on the web

site. Child masters one horn (and builds the muscles to make a set of

sounds) and then moves to the next horn. Very cool program.

Juli

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