Re: Sooo Apraxia can present.....

[Guest guest]

Leigh he's so young still too to know for sure as he's only 2. You

can look at it as " suspected apraxia " and appropriate therapies won't

hurt and will probably help. Perhaps " lost language " isn't the best

way of explaining it -but a child with apraxia (not on EFAs) will be

able to say a sound or a word once -but not again. Won't be able to

repeat it. So the question is are your child's errors consistent?

And if they are is he on fish oils which could explain that -and if

not -good chance he's not apraxic. Not every 2 year old that isn't

speaking yet is apraxic (thank goodness for the rest that aren't)

Don't get me wrong -apraxia is not as bad as I read it to be when

Tanner was first diagnosed. He never went through the teasing -was

mainstreamed since kindergarten and is very social....but it took

lots of therapy and lots of fish oils to get him there.

Other than lack of sounds..which may or may not even be a disorder of

speech in a two year old...what other signs?

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[Guest guest]

Has anyone checked your child's tonsils?

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> in different ways is what I'm thinking from my reading? I'm sorry

as I've researched but seem to keep getting confused. My son has

not " lost " any language but like another member here recently

mentioned, he has limited sounds (mostly consonants). His vowels are

great : cow is " ow " .. cat is " a " or " at " ... his strongest consonant

is " da " or " do " .. even tho when he tries to say " dog " it comes out

as " o " or on a good day " og " (very light " g " sound). We just did the

EI/ST evals and he qualifies : 2 yrs and only 5 words (yet if you

count the words he says consistently and I know.. it's much more, but

noone else would know what the words were) altho his stubborness

played into things and his receptive skills tested way more poorly

than expressive (which I'm almost pos is wrong) cause he " refused " to

do stuff. ST not worried either (about receptive). Anyway, just

wondering about these limited sounds. Is that something like apraxia?

Phonological processing disorder? Realize he's young but

> if anyone has any thoughts on this, would love to hear!

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> Leigh

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[Guest guest]

My son's are very large.

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> Has anyone checked your child's tonsils?