Retrieving Info or Processing

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Hi, I was just wondering... Did anyone's apraxic child have a problem

with retrieving information or processing it?

My 5 yrs old son was non verbal at the age of 3 when he had about 5

spontaneous words (even after 8 months of EI therapy - non apraxia

approach though). Since then, starting at 3 yrs old with PROMPT

trained ST, some OT sessions, fish oil, he's made a big improvement.

Still way behind his peers in expressive language, but receptively

seems on target.

ST noticed that sometimes he has hard time retrieving information. For

example when asked: what did you have for lunch today? or, what did

you this morning? he says, he doesn't know, or stays quiet. She's not

sure what it is or why it is. She says he's pretty inconsistent in it.

What do you think? Any suggestions, ideas, experience? Thank you so

much, this group is great!

Eva

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Eva,

My reccommendation is to only say a few words to him at a time. That is all

he can comprehend. Check the files for information on The Listening Program

from NACD it has done wonders for us in the auditory category. Jancie writes

about this all the time.

Good Luck!

Colleen

[ ] Retrieving Info or Processing

Hi, I was just wondering... Did anyone's apraxic child have a problem

with retrieving information or processing it?

My 5 yrs old son was non verbal at the age of 3 when he had about 5

spontaneous words (even after 8 months of EI therapy - non apraxia

approach though). Since then, starting at 3 yrs old with PROMPT

trained ST, some OT sessions, fish oil, he's made a big improvement.

Still way behind his peers in expressive language, but receptively

seems on target.

ST noticed that sometimes he has hard time retrieving information. For

example when asked: what did you have for lunch today? or, what did

you this morning? he says, he doesn't know, or stays quiet. She's not

sure what it is or why it is. She says he's pretty inconsistent in it.

What do you think? Any suggestions, ideas, experience? Thank you so

much, this group is great!

Eva

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evagrebe wrote:

> Hi, I was just wondering... Did anyone's apraxic child have a problem

> with retrieving information or processing it?

Hi Eva

This is one facet of apraxia/dyspraxia actually. We deal with that at

our house, too. We and the school are using written multiple choice

question-answer combos and using this method of communication, my son is

able to respond and respond accurately to the questions...plus it helps

him understand better the question answer and how to construct the

replies, which he is still often unable to do. He is relieved to be

able to communicate and have the extra visual help to do so. He cannot

reply to verbal multiple choice questions either but with the written

ones, he's a whiz...really has helped his self-confidence. It's so

frustrating for him not being able to formulate what he knows we want

him to be able to say.

Here's one article on this topic:

http://www.apraxia-kids.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=chKMI0PIIsE & b=788457\

& ct=464475

You may want to take time to do a Google search using keywords

" dyspraxia word retrieval problems " and also " apraxia word retrieval

problems " and browse some of the many articles that come up...sounds

like your therapist needs to do a bit of reading on this, too, since she

doesn't understand why he is having these problems.

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Hi, Eva!

I'm actally on this board for my toddler daughter, but I have a 5yo

son who does this exact thing ALL THE TIME, and he doesn't have any

language problems (he's quite advanced, actually). We know he heard

the question because he can repeat it to us. But even when we ask

him again, he just doesn't remember what he had for lunch or what we

did yesterday afternoon. Until we remind him, and then it's

all, 'Oh, yeah! We went to the movie! It was great, blah blah

blah.' lol. Our theory is that his brain is just too busy paying

attention to other things to remember anything he's not interested in

at the moment.

But there is a big difference between retrieving information and

retrieving words. As others mentioned, retrieving words is common

with apraxia, but I'm not sure about retrieving information.

It sounds to me, from what you describe, that your OT's concern is

that he can't retrieve INFO, not words. And maybe it's extreme

enough that there's something that needs to be looked into; I'm

certainly not suggesting you write it off. But it is fairly normal

5yo behavior to be pre-occupied or just not care about what he had

for breakfast. (I know the OT should be aware of this, and maybe she

is! I only mention it because we've seen a couple of SLPs who tried

several activities and methods with my 19mo that were quite

inappropriate for her age.)

Also, is it just with her, or with you, too?

Does he do this with you too, or is it just with the OT?

> Hi, I was just wondering... Did anyone's apraxic child have a

problem

> with retrieving information or processing it?

>

> My 5 yrs old son was non verbal at the age of 3 when he had about 5

> spontaneous words (even after 8 months of EI therapy - non apraxia

> approach though). Since then, starting at 3 yrs old with PROMPT

> trained ST, some OT sessions, fish oil, he's made a big improvement.

> Still way behind his peers in expressive language, but receptively

> seems on target.

>

> ST noticed that sometimes he has hard time retrieving information.

For

> example when asked: what did you have for lunch today? or, what did

> you this morning? he says, he doesn't know, or stays quiet. She's

not

> sure what it is or why it is. She says he's pretty inconsistent in

it.

>

> What do you think? Any suggestions, ideas, experience? Thank you so

> much, this group is great!

>

> Eva

>