foreign language instruction for apraxic kids

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Hi, all. I am generally a lurker, but I do have a question. I am

dealing with a 3 year old apraxic son who despite a year and a half of

DAN! and a year and a half of 5x a week O/T and SLP services still

can't do much more than label (and usually you have to use your

imagination to decide what the garbled words mean). Is there any hope

for a kid like this to become a competent communicator in several

languages, or are severaly apraxic kids going to be limited by their

disability to one language, and that not very clear? Have I been

wasting my time reading to him in foreign languages and showing him

foreign language cartoon CDs? What is the future, in a globalized

economy, for someone like my son, who may be incapable of learning his

own, much less someone else's, language? My son's therapists all

claim that he will be understandable by the time first grade rolls

around and that he is not " challenged " intellectually, but no one will

speak to me about whether my son will ever follow my footsteps and

revel in other languages and other cultures. It seems a pity. Thanks

for any insight, etc.

CanAmTJMom