will talk the same as at 5 yrs old?

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I agree with ....one of the many drs (a neurologist) did say that the twins

may never speak and " live in the world of the deaf " ....that was when they were

almost 3 and at 5 they were talking but not like they do now at 10...they never

stop talking!! ? We are still working on that R and I have said many times if we

lived in NY I think they'd get away with it...and sometimes the word retrieval

problem comes up...like tonight...it's mischief night where we live so the boys

were talking about what we do every year..etc...and the one couldn't get the

word 'tradition' out so the other said it but it wasn't really?pronounced

correctly. I had to say it and then they could repeat it....but what if they

hadn't taken those fish pills at 3???? Would they be talking now or had gotten

this far?? I really can't find a reason other than perhaps a fish allergy(?) why

someone wouldn't try the NN ProEFA.....but I'm biased since it worked for

us!!!!!??? ...and it did clear up my oldest son's (without apraxia)?eczema....

Kathy (NJ)??

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> It's so hard with the search function not working right to find out

> where it was mentioned -and I don't even know if you meant me or some

> other ! Anyway as Myra just said the statement that the way a

> child is speaking at 5 is how they will always speak is SO not true.

> If anyone needs examples I can archive them...but it will take a bit

> longer!

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> This may have come from a statement I heard from Kanter who

> used to be the executive director for the Summit Speech School for

> the Hearing Impaired and Deaf in NJ, prior to passing away of

> cancer.

>

> She said the philosophy behind the oral based schools is that one can

> learn to sign at any age, but a deaf child who is nonverbal by the

> age of 5 statistically will remain nonverbal. But again that has to

> do with a deaf child -not hearing apraxic or other speech impaired

> children.

>

> Tanner attended the Summit Speech School through out of district

> placement for his preschool placement and it was the most awesome

> school ever in the entire world!!!! The success rate of this school

> is amazing for how many of their students are mainstreamed into their

> local kindergartens. Tanner's one of their success stories even

> though he's not hearing impaired -or deaf -and I don't remember more

> than one or two ear infections ever.

> http://www.summitspeech.com/

>

> I hear (pardon the pun) the Summit Speech School no longer allows

> hearing apraxic children into the program except perhaps those (cof

> cof) few apraxic children that had " all those ear infections that

> affected their child's hearing during that crucial time that they

> should have been developing speech skills " . (hint)

>

> Hope that helps!

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