I thought a person was born with Apraxia Re: ? @ Vitamin E

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Apraxia can either be acquired or developmental (meaning you are born with it)

As an adult you can have a head injury as one condition that can cause apraxia:

" What are the types and causes of apraxia?

There are two main types of speech apraxia: acquired apraxia of speech and

developmental apraxia of speech. Acquired apraxia of speech can affect a person

at any age, although it most typically occurs in adults. It is caused by damage

to the parts of the brain that are involved in speaking, and involves the loss

or impairment of existing speech abilities. The disorder may result from a

stroke, head injury, tumor, or other illness affecting the brain. Acquired

apraxia of speech may occur together with muscle weakness affecting speech

production (dysarthria) or language difficulties caused by damage to the nervous

system (aphasia).

Developmental apraxia of speech (DAS) occurs in children and is present from

birth. It appears to affect more boys than girls. "

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/apraxia.htm

As it states above, most assume that children with apraxia are all born with it,

however all the professionals that work/ed with my son Tanner agree his is most

likely acquired. Tanner at 11 months went through 2 weeks of very high fevers as

it says in The Late Talker book. He lost sounds and appeared to develop

hypotonia as anyone can see in before and after photos and videos. At 11 months

the mother's immunity has just about left the baby's body and the baby has not

yet developed fully his own immunity yet so it's a critical age for potential

brain injury as I learned years later. At the time we of course called

(repeatedly) his pediatrician's office and the hospital who did the emergency

care during the PM hours. Both told me the same: As long as the fever broke

and as long as he didn't have a seizure there was no reason to bring him in.

Again I learned years later that was horrible advice and that they should have

done testing to find out why he kept getting fevers that shot up over 103.

Regardless the point is that Tanner's apraxia is most likely acquired. Even if

it was not however I would never use the term developmental apraxia of speech or

childhood because apraxia is a condition that one overcomes but as we know from

the teens and adults in this group that grew up with apraxia -it's not something

that " poof " goes away once your child reaches a certain age. Also without

appropriate therapy it would be difficult to impossible to be able to overcome

it.

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