Falling Issue

[Guest guest]

My son is 2 years and 9 months, right now he is in PTN for language therapist.

But ever since he started running at around 15 months, he always falls. even on

a flat surface like our home carpet! I raised this problem to his PT, but two

PTs have observed him for several months, they cannot get any conclusion.

His speech is getting improved very fast and recently we did an IQ test which

shows above average. but he still falls very often. I am suspecting there

might be some fluid in his middle ears. (i am just guessing, no evidence at

all) His pediatrician could not check his ear drums since he had too much vex

in his ears at last time visit.

does anyone here have the same experience or any clue about this?

thank you so much!

[Guest guest]

Well-- there could be a few reasons why he's falling.

check with the fluid in the ears because it's the more " obvious " and simple

thing to check out.

Another issue could be Sensory Processing Disorder. He just may not have a

good sense of where his body is in the world-- hence the falling down.

(Proprioceptive part of the senses).

Another more likely cause if your child has Verbal Apraxia, is that the

child could possibly have Global/limb Apraxia-- which is called DYSPRAXIA. Do

a

search on Dyspraxia for different signs and see if this might add up to be

your child. More and more parents to children with verbal Apraxia are

realizing that their child has Dyspraxia. It's really the same " beast " but

just to a

higher extent. I would act on this one quickly, because the sooner you can

start therapies to help out, the better off your child will be long-term.

Lastly--another thing that is a possibility is that your child also has the

" soft signs " that typically come with Apraxia, and probably has Hypotonia (low

muscle tone in the trunk) and what I've noticed with 2 of my own kids with

Hypotonia, is that they definitely tend to be on the clumsier side of life.

Is it due to Dyspraxia, or Sensory issues or Hypotonia??? Or is it due to a

combination of all of the above? Hard to know-- but the remediation will

depend on what you find out, so h opefully this will help

Becky

In a message dated 3/6/2009 8:17:51 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

cri_graceren@... writes:

My son is 2 years and 9 months, right now he is in PTN for language

therapist. But ever since he started running at around 15 months, he always

falls.

even on a flat surface like our home carpet! I raised this problem to his PT,

but two PTs have observed him for several months, they cannot get any

conclusion.

His speech is getting improved very fast and recently we did an IQ test

which shows above average. but he still falls very often. I am suspecting there

might be some fluid in his middle ears. (i am just guessing, no evidence at

all) His pediatrician could not check his ear drums since he had too much vex

in his ears at last time visit.

does anyone here have the same experience or any clue about this?

thank you so much!

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[Guest guest]

I would suspect global dyspraxia issues. Certainly he is having proprioception

problems.

What NACD does with kids who do not have a good walk is to take them back to a

crawl and give them just a little bit more in this area of

development....working the central nervous system just a little bit more. Play

games with your son where this is possible.... pretend to be a soldier and belly

crawl on the floor. Pretend to be horses and cows and go back to the hands and

knees on the floor, you can do sound effects and make it a game. The next step

is to do some marching type of movements with high knees. Your son can learn

this in one place, initially and then take it to a walk. NACD had us to cross

marching, whereby Mark would march tapping the raised knee with the alternate

hand.....your son might be a tad young to actually work on this but you could

try it. This really works proprioception as well. After that, you work fast

walking on even surfaces, always pointing to the leading foot with the alternate

hand and then fast walking on uneven surfaces (trails and such)

Not only did Mark used to fall on flat surfaces, he fell down stairs for years

and years (right up to the age of 11). It just never got better. Mark used to

fall and bang his head so much when he was a little guy (3-4) that we actually

put a helmut on him when he played on our front driveway to prevent head injury.

Anyway, my guy with global dyspraxia, fell for years and years but once we went

back, redid the crawl, the creep, the march (we also skipped but that is a

little too advanced for a 3 year old).... he never fell down those stairs again

and he stopped having such severe proprioception issues. His understanding of

depth was much better.

DO persist with the ears. I believe that food intolerances (we have a milk

intolerance in our house) really clogged up Mark's ears and severely compromised

his vestibular system. I will always wonder if he had gotten his tonsils out

and tubes put into his ears whether he would ever have gotten these issues so

severely..... I would continue to pursue this area because physical ear health

is extremely important and unresolved issues can lead to a lot of developmental

delays.

Good luck and take care,

Janice

Mother of Mark, 14

[ ] Falling Issue

My son is 2 years and 9 months, right now he is in PTN for language therapist.

But ever since he started running at around 15 months, he always falls. even on

a flat surface like our home carpet! I raised this problem to his PT, but two

PTs have observed him for several months, they cannot get any conclusion.

His speech is getting improved very fast and recently we did an IQ test which

shows above average. but he still falls very often. I am suspecting there might

be some fluid in his middle ears. (i am just guessing, no evidence at all) His

pediatrician could not check his ear drums since he had too much vex in his ears

at last time visit.

does anyone here have the same experience or any clue about this?

thank you so much!