Re: Hope my daughter will open a conversation with me

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Hi Carol

I'm sure others will have lots of suggestions. I have a SN child in

the school system now so that's what I base some of my suggestions on

however she is not Apraxic. I'm assuming from what you've described

your daughter, has very limited language? Our wonderful school system

isnt the best at providing the Least restrictive yet supportive

environment, or should I say " identifying " it much of the time unless

you have a really fantastic teacher. Your daughter deserves and by law

(her right ) is entitled to be in the least restrictive environment

where she can learn with same age peers. However, sometimes the least

restrictive environment (LRE) actually happens to be a classroom of

children with challenges (different schools may group differently).The

thing you have to watch for here is that many of these classrooms are

teaching children who are " learning disabled " and Apraxic childen

(while some may) arent generally learning disabled.. they have

expressive languge issues. So this type of classroom (again depending

on school and make-up of class) would not necessarily be conducive to

a LRE. Your dd, it sounds to me, has not been getting enough ST (altho

a fair newbie to Apraxia - a fairly new dx for my 2 year old) BUT my

thinking is that ST needs to be boosted significantly along with poss.

OT if she's got sensory issues. You didnt mention resource room? My

daughter, who is in first grade, doesnt get the best ST unfortunately

BUT it's often made up in Resource with some really incredible

staffers, 1:1 attention both in classroom and outside, that reinforces

what's happening in ST/and in the class. She has approx 3 hours weekly

of Resource time and it's great! And if the LRE for your dd is in the

classroom then she may need an aide: someone who can help her with the

social connections, prompts for communication (if that works right now

etc).

If you have any kind of support entity for you in your community for

IEP's /special needs kids... and esp those who might help you find an

advocate you might want to pursue. I think we all could use a good

advocate sometimes.. to see the forest thru the trees. But given your

school system's less than helpful nature thusfar, sounds like they

need some big guns thrown at them and an advocate could really help

with that.. Wishing you the very best!

Leigh

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> I have a daughter diagonised with Verbal Apraxia from 4 months ago,

now she is 4 years, we hadnt� any idea about that diagonis, the school

had done an assessement and IEP, because of delay of speech and

language disorder. So they placed her in regular class, and provide

20minutes speech Twice.

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> NOWWW, after AYEAR ?????

> They�done an atriculation test for her, and they know the diagonis

after I had done a private evalution in speech center.

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> I asked them about what are the new services?

> OT, ST, they didnt do any thing yet, only add 10 min more for each

section.

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> but, I think now this�class with general teacher is not suitable for

her as a language class, she needs speech and Prompt, language signs,

also she doesnt act with other friends good, she doesnt have relation

ship, a lot of social issyes I had noticed.

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> but the school now dont want to do another placement for her.

> I fell frustrated, as English is my second language , sometimes I

cant tell her what she asks me?

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> HOW CAN I HELP MY DAUGHTER???????

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> Carol�

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