What is the percentage of children that are apraxic?

[Guest guest]

Is it fairly common? My son has it. He has been in therapy since 3

years old and in the last few months has improved. Long and very

stressful journey. He would have extrene temper tantrums when we could

not understand him. Now he just ignores it.

[Guest guest]

In 2006, it was estimated at 1 in 1,000 kids and that was a rough estimate.

From: gobraves39560 <gobraves39560@...>

Subject: [ ] What is the percentage of children that are

apraxic?

Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 8:16 PM

Is it fairly common? My son has it. He has been in therapy since 3

years old and in the last few months has improved. Long and very

stressful journey. He would have extrene temper tantrums when we could

not understand him. Now he just ignores it.

[Guest guest]

Actually the exact quote was " Nationwide Children's estimate as many

as 'one to 10' children out of every 1,000 kids may have the

disorder. " but it's all a guestimate as many are misdiagnosed as

autistic or PDD(didn't we just talk about this?) I can tell you that

at Tanner's preschool there were 3 apraxic neighbors in his preschool

class of 6 which is who I started Children's Apraxia Network with -

and no where near 1000 kids entering preschool! You could go block

to block and find apraxic children where I used to live. I knew one

teen with severe autism but his parents (who had the money to try

everything) had to put him in out of district institutional type

school where he lived most of the time and only came home once in

awhile because he had severe autism and at they could no longer

control when he attacked and he attacked and hurt his sister. It

didn't seem like he knew the difference between me or his mother as

he had no reaction to people and didn't speak at all -just grunts. He found

a string that was on the floor in my house and got VERY excited about

it and kept spinning it. I knew a few children with PDD apraxia and

they were more like other children- in and out. Some things were

normal and some were not. Children with apraxia- speech and sensory

issues and low tone but just normal kids in regards to play and

everything else were coming out of the woodwork. We all knew each

other back then -and we all saw the stats first hand from in person

meetings. Many more apraxic children.

Look at the rise in children that are classified as speech and

language impaired -look at the children classified as PDD due to just

to lack of speech and sensory issues and out of that lies closer to

the truth of the actual percentage of how many children have what we

call apraxia today. By the time we have the actual percentage

however there will probably be a different name for it as I don't

believe apraxia or (what people call) autism today is what it was

decades ago.

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