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My identical twins...now just 4....had approx. 8 ear infections as infants

and young toddlers and were on antibiotics and then finally maintenance

antibiotics for months. They finally wound up with tubes....yes, the

infections stopped, but the speaking did not improve....I really never

thought that their " delay " was due to the infections anyway. They were/are

apraxic. I wish I had EI before 2yrs of age, but that was the time that the

pediatrician thought that something was wrong.....and of course, I never even

heard of the word APRAXIA.....even after being a teacher for 15 years in a

small district that has many many " spec. ed " kids you'd think somewhere along

the way I would have heard of it....They are doing great with the ProEFA and

therapy, but still not up to the speech of a 4 year old......I hope one day

that (in the hospital) parents are educated in the areas of Early

Intervention after they have their baby...just like you are told how much to

bottle feed your child...I think both are equally important as perhaps if I

had started the twins a year earlier (at 1) I would have also known about

ProEFA earlier.....they had virtually no speech success (8 months worth of

EI and private therapy) until the ProEFA was started.......and my

oldest-without speech probs-had his eczema clear up....when I skip a few days

or more he starts again and wakes up with scratch marks all over.........I

will always keep posting although I have seen success so that others will

read about my successes and failures and discoveries.....anyone can e-mail me

privately if I can help in any way. Kathy NJ