Finally Talking - but I cant understand!!

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UGH - please help!

My son has finally been formally diagnosed with Apraxia thru our school dist. I

have suspected it for a year - but the SLP finally wrote it up as so.

This book has been a life saver for me - helps me not lose my mind.

DS - 3 years old only had 5-10 words a year ago, and the fact that he strings

words together now is amazing - the thing is - now that he is talking he is

SOOOOO hard to understand the articulation is terrible.

How in the world am I supposed to continue to help his speech when he has

apraxia - so one on one speech drills are hard for him to do - yet this is what

he needs to help drill in his brain correct articulation???!?

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!

We do some picture cards and these help - but he seems to get frustrated with

them - almost like he thinks he doesnt need them - he acts like we are treating

him like a baby when we give him these -

I am feeling like there is no light at the end of the tunnel - everyone around

us comments about how much better he is doing - yet they dont understand him

either, last night he was trying to tell me something over and over again and I

could not make heads or tails of it " bbeee by baeegerr do " - every time he told

me he got more and more irritated - he finally pointed and said - " go dat way " -

this is where he wanted me to bring him - I think he was trying to say " please

lets go down to the basement " I just wanted to cry b/c here he is finally trying

to talk and we cannot understand him - so I think he gets frustrated and then

just shuts down!

He also has SPD/SID but this all seems to stem from speech/frustration/hearing

problems from before the tubes and aednoids out.

Fish oils seem to be working - he has been on PRO EFA for a couple of months!

Any insight - happy endings to keep me moving?

TIA Jill