any experience, advice for 2nd child also concern of CAS

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My apologies for the long post here. My 5 1/2 year old ds was diagnosed with CAS

(verbal

apraxia and some oral motor) as well as a mixed expressive/receptive language

disorder,

and sensory integration issues 2 1/2 years ago. Now that he has been receiving

the right

services for the past 2 years his expressive language has flourished and he is

doing great,

even speaking in sentences (which for a boy who could not say Momma until his 4

birthday is amazing to us).

We waited to have a second child until we had an understanding of what our son

needed

and now our dd is almost 16 months. In many ways she is different from her

brother (I do

not notice the oral motor things that our son had for example) but we are now

getting

concerned about her expressive language. Although she does make some noises, she

really does not have any real words that she uses. I might get an occasional Ma

ma, but

that is usually only when she is alone in her crib crying to be gotten. She also

does not try

to imitate sounds (or if she does it seems like she is having some trouble with

it). She does

waive goodbye and uses some signs (more, milk, all done).

If we did not see this with her brother I might be less concerned and think to

give her

another month or so to see what happens. However, she is behind the milestones

now for

language and I am trying to figure out what to do. I have talked to my ds' SLP

and on her

recommendation am calling early intervention for an assessment (it takes a

couple of

months usually so I wanted to get on the list). I do not know if I am being

overly vigilant

here, but it took way too long for my ds to get what he needed and if we might

be facing

this again I want to be sure now that I know more I can be a better advocate for

her and

help her in the best way possible. I am also considering starting her on ProEFA

(I am

talking to her pediatrician today about that) as that seemed to help her brother

a great

deal.

I guess my question is this, has anyone experienced more than one child having

issues

and how did you handle it? Were there similarities and differences between your

children?

Any advice?

Thanks in advance,