Guest guest Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 My daughter is 10 and is diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Effects. Dyspraxia and Apraxia. She will get a word or sound 'stuck' in her head and I cannot seem to help her when in this 'mode'. For example... She has a friend named Lea...but she calls her " A-Lea " . I will say...Her name is Lea..just Lea and she will say...ALea...just Alea. A few days ago, she was trying to say " toward " and kept saying " a-toward " . We tried for about 20 minutes to say " toward " . She did it in isolation, and then in the sentence went back to " a-toward " . We talked about its definition, had her look at it as a visual prompt...but again said " a-toward " . We even talked about how adding the " a " adds another syllable and that it actually isn't a word...which didn't help. She will also do this by substituting a word. She was trying to say forgetting last week and kept saying forgiving. Again, no matter how much we tried the above 'helps'...it didn't help! Does anyone have experience with this? If so...any ideas on how to help? Thank you- Gisele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2008 Report Share Posted March 4, 2008 Question: If she opens her mouth wide, is she easily able to put her tongue to the top of her mouth or does she struggle? Can she move her tongue up and down in rapid succession? Also, does your daughter have a nasal quality to the sound of her voice? ie. a problem with oral-nasal contrasts? Just digging a little deeper since I am not a speech therapist and am only drawing on personal experience. I have two problems with Mark remaining with his speech.... #1 is oral motor issues that are still hampering sound and #2. Bad habits How many times have I had to say " not suspose but supose " . He repeats the word, says it correctly but then reverts back in conversation (drives me nuts). We had the same problem with the word 'three' a few years back. Mark would say Free instead of Three, common enough of an error and we knew what he was saying. He finally was able to perform 'thr' sound consistently and thus could say 'three' but forgot since he had been saying Free just too many years to change. Finally, when I started doing digit spans with him, I tossed in a 3 every chance I could and got rid of that little nasty habit. So..... which problem are you having or is it a little bit of both? [sPAM][ ] Verbally stuck?? My daughter is 10 and is diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Effects. Dyspraxia and Apraxia. She will get a word or sound 'stuck' in her head and I cannot seem to help her when in this 'mode'. For example... She has a friend named Lea...but she calls her " A-Lea " . I will say...Her name is Lea..just Lea and she will say...ALea...just Alea. A few days ago, she was trying to say " toward " and kept saying " a-toward " . We tried for about 20 minutes to say " toward " . She did it in isolation, and then in the sentence went back to " a-toward " . We talked about its definition, had her look at it as a visual prompt...but again said " a-toward " . We even talked about how adding the " a " adds another syllable and that it actually isn't a word...which didn't help. She will also do this by substituting a word. She was trying to say forgetting last week and kept saying forgiving. Again, no matter how much we tried the above 'helps'...it didn't help! Does anyone have experience with this? If so...any ideas on how to help? Thank you- Gisele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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