Apraxia of speech? anyone??

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has been seeing a speech therapist for several months now..

hes 2 years old (last week!) and has 4 words.

once we started seeing the therapist we worked on signs and he

seriously has several dozen signs already and is pieceing them

together to make small sentances... she said this is awsome and that

receptive speech is actually ahead for his age.

but hes still only got 4 words, and when he says them its HARD work

for him.

This combined with alot of other signs and symptoms hes showing

(difficulty copying faces, making his mouth do what he wants it to,

etc) has ultimately led her to conclude that he likely has

developmental apraxia of speech. she said it is a type of motor

planning disorder, which immidiately made me think of you Darla!

(Zipporah has this with her gross motor right?) this is also

potentially a cause of his gait difficulties, however they havent

decided that yet.

so im curious, does anyone else deal with this? my understanding is

we have gotten a diagnosis at a very young age, which is good as far

as therapy goes... but does anyone know of any resources (websites

etc?) that deal with this? I had never heard of it, so im going in

completley blind...

thanks!

Keely