Re: Re: Help with communication... speech recovery prgam

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Just thought I would share this with you. There is a program that can be

implemented for persons that have lost language abilitiy?due to?stroke.?I am

told for our kids with regressive autism, that had language and then lost it,

what happened in their tiny brains can be compared to a stroke that happens in

the aged population.

The organization's founder told me that she has had several parents of children

with autism?using this program. It works by creating new neuro pathways to the

dormant speech processing center located in the right side of the brain and

helps recover speech.

You can find her on the web at strokefamily.org. I purchased the entire program,

and have started just recently with my son. It maybe something you might want to

look into while you are looking at the pecs program as well.

If you call her number on the website she will be glad to talk to you. She also

has a manual on this recovery method that she will send to you via email at no

charge.

She developed this program herself after her father,?lost all language, and the

ability to understand?language?after a massive stroke. Using this method her

father recovered pretty much all of his speech using the dormant speech center.

Just something else to look into.

Rollie

Re: Help with communication... PECS?

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's always been verbal, but was severly echolalic. Although we

didn't adopt the entire PECS system, we found parts of it to be

really useful in helping him replace the echolalia with functional

language, as well as pinpoint what functions the echolalia was being

used for. We used it (and still do) alot for sentence structure,

vocabulary building, utterance length...

You might also want to look into signing - at one point last year we

looked into a total communication program at a local school for the

deaf (didn't end up placing him there). The kids are immersed in

speaking, signing, pictures and other technological aides (many of

the hearing impaired kids had implants). We ultimately found that,

here and there, had been utilizing simple signing (we didn't

realize because we didn't know the signs). His public school teacher

uses signs in conjunction with speaking, even though noone in his

class is hearing impaired.

The way it's been explained to me is that the internal language

development process is the same no matter what ultimate method of

cumminication you're using. So the pictures (or sign language) will

help develop the communication, and if your son can talk, he

eventually will replace the pictures (or sign language) with speech.

Hang in there...

Alaine