New to the group and need some help

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Hi,

I am very happy that I have found this great support group! Here is

our brief story:

My son is 20 months old with no words yet - except the word " apple "

that he started to say rarely very recently. I contacted EI back in

February when my son was around 17 months old and they assigned a

special educator. She started about a month ago (since EI assignment

procedures take almost two months in NJ) but I felt that we also

needed a SLP because special educator alone would not seem to be

enough.

I took my son to a pediatric neurologist in NY who diagonised him

with mild hypotonia and sensory integration dysfunction. She also

said my son meets likely criteria for PDD NOS but it's not a

diagnosis yet. Doctor recommended that he gets speech & ABA therapies

and she sees him again in three months to re-evaluate. Because my son

has great eye contact and very social with people around as well as

pointing out to pictures in the books, etc., I am not sure if it

really could be PDD NOS.

I recently started to work with a private SLP (while waiting for EI

to come for re-assesments as per pediatric neurologist's

recommendation) and she said my son might likely to have apraxia, not

PDD NOS. She also recommended The Late Talker which I have just

started to read.

I have two questions to the group. I will appreciate a lot if you can

give me a hand to help...I am very new to the whole concept of

apraxia and would like to educate myself as much as possible.

- What is the ideal dosage of ProEFA for a 20 month old baby?

- If I choose to give him the liquid form, what would be the ideal

dosage vs gels?

- Do I need to add anything else to it such as Vitamin E? If yes, is

there a recommended website? And, what is the ideal dosage of

additional supplements (such as Vitamin E) for a 20 month old?

- Is there a difference in speech therapy techniques for apraxia vs

PDD NOS?

- I also heard about GFCF diet. Could someone give me a brief info.

about what it really is? I am trying to understand if this is

something that I need to consider for my son.

Thank you very much for your help,

June