Therapist says possible, neuro said nah

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Quick background: Brenden is a 3 year old boy, with global

development delays and low muscle tone. His current speech is 98%

vowels, with words sounding like; apple = ah-uhl, puppy = uh-e, dad =

ah(just the 'a' sound), outside = ow-eye. His speech therapist at

preschool reported today that he was able to stick his tongue out to

the edge of his teeth, which is about as far as I've seen it go. He

chews well, and she sees no oral-motor weakness. His drooling stopped

closer to age 2. His delays became evident at 12 months, and he

became therapy right away.

Currently taking Lil Critters Gummy Fish, MB12 injections,

multivitamin

His speech therapist says apraxia is very possible. He says mainly

vowels, has aproximations, and has " a TON to say " , but it's all

vowels! The neurologist we saw on Tuesday said " He has aproximations,

it's not apraxia. " .

So what the heck now? Brenden has gone through numerous testing to

determine a cause for his delays, including blood tests, urine tests,

2 brain MRI's, 1 EEG, and a couple of chromosomal microarrays.

EVERYTHING has come back normal.

I just have no idea what's going on.

On the 9th we are seeing ENT to do an evalution for the possiblity of

a short frenulum/tongue tie, and I have questions about

velopharyngeal dysfunction, but what else is there?