Re: The lighter side of apraxia

[Guest guest]

Very funny! I too can relate. The first time my son said " shut with

an i " he was actually trying to say the swear word and it was at a

time when he couldn't say very much at all. We actually congratulated

him on his great pronunciation before telling him that is a word we

don't use! LOL!

Miche

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:56 PM, lysa filcek<lmfilcek@...> wrote:

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> Hello, my name is Lysa. My daughter Anya, now 8, has apraxia, diagnosed when

she was 3. She's been through therapy for 5+ years and speaks with about 80%

intelligebility now. Mostly I lurk, reading and being grateful we live in a time

with all this medical help for our lovely children. We had a couple of funny

incidents related to her apraxia I thouht I would pass on.

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> Two weeks ago, Anya reported that her class mate accused her of saying " sh*t "

instead of " shut " ... because welll, let's face it, she still has trouble with

her short vowel sounds.  The teacher of course understood the problem and

assured Anya's classmase that she did say " shut " .

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> Second, my 18 month old just learned the word fork, but he leaves out the 'r',

saying " fok " . Anya saids, " He says that really well. It sounds just like fork. "

Of course it sounds perfect to Anya, since she leaves out the 'r' too.

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> Maybe these are " you had to be there " kind of things, but I laughed good and

hard at them. I'm glad we're at a point in our apraxia experience where we can

laugh at these little things. It took a long time and many tears to get here,

but I wouldn't trade the things I've learned about myself, my daughter or IEPs

for anything. Best wishes to all of you on your apraxia journey.

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hi  to all,

 my name is mona , i have a son 9 years old with apraxia and never spoken

  he was bubbling around 18 month with sounds like mmma bbbbba no more and we

tried everything speech therapy, supplement , AIT

   any help would be great and now my youngest child 18 month do not speek

just humming and pointing out what should i do to encourage him to speek

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My son at age 3 was screaming the word truck but drop the tr and add F thru

target yelling mama *uck *uck I want *uck lol the looks I got made it so

funny.... My younges age 2 say dinawhores is instead of dinosors it is so funny

I video taped it.

Zoey

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Whores is a fun one. My 2 yr old with artic issues (thankfully just

that!) says hor instead of horse. It's especially fun when we all go

to my son's hippotherapy. She walks around with a strange look (she's

a little scared of the big horses) screaming and pointing, WHORE WHORE

WHORE!

My apraxic son used to say " dinanor " instead of dinosaur. This was of

course during his huge dinosaur loving phase so it was a word we hear

ALL the time! One day my husband was at the office and said something

to a coworker about having gone to the nature and science museum, " You

know, the one where all the dinanors are. " The guy looked at him very

strangely! LOL!

Miche

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:40 PM, <zoeyar8@...> wrote:

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> target yelling mama *uck *uck I want *uck lol the looks I got made it so

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> Zoey

> Sent on the Now Network™ from my Sprint® BlackBerry

[Guest guest]

I am so glad we're not the only family to laugh at the funny mispronunciations

we hear. We love our daughter and support her in all she does, but sometimes I

have to laugh or I'd be crying all day. It was great to read other stories.

I am finding joy in the many successes our daughter has. Today at the eye doctor

she named all the letters correctly without pausing to position her mouth

correctly. There was a time when she couldn't tell the doctor " bird " or " car " or

" tree " when he asked her what she saw. Now she's moved onto letters and can

actually respond to his questions.

Also, I want to apologize for not clipping my original message. I am very sorry

for re-sending the entire digest.

Have a great week!

Lysa

[Guest guest]

How sweet that they understand each other. My boys are kind of like that too.

My older son said one time, " You don't have to talk to be cool, you just do

really cool things - kids like because he's unique " .

I loved that.

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services.? Therefore, he will be losing the class time if the related services

are worked into this time and not added onto the end of the day.?

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[Guest guest]

I get a good laugh at the words my son comes out with, but seeing that one made

me think of a bit of a shock I had a few weeks ago. My SLP is trying to teach

him the " f " sound, and explained " so instead of saying 'whore' he'd say four " ,

and for " hive " he'd say five. It was kind of funny to hear her say, because he

pronounces it " ha " . (one, too, ree, ha, hi, heek or seek, hen, eight, nine,

ten). Needless to say, I'm sure for just that one second, hearing her say

'whore' probably left me with a shocked look until I saw where she was going.

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> > My son at age 3 was screaming the word truck but drop the tr and add F thru

> > target yelling mama *uck *uck I want *uck lol the looks I got made it so

> > funny.... My younges age 2 say dinawhores is instead of dinosors it is so

> > funny I video taped it.

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> > Zoey

> > Sent on the Now Network™ from my Sprint® BlackBerry

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[Guest guest]

well... this isn't related to apraxia but still was totally embarrassing and

looking back on it ..quite funny now that I am not in the store getting

shockingly stared at by everyone within earshot..When my son was around 2 years

old he loved everything to do with the train. So did my neighbor's child.

I happened to take both boys out with me one day to Target and we went down the

aisle to check out the toys and both kids began squealing things to the

effect of " Percy..I love Percy..I want Percy..Percy Percy Percy " which would

have all been fine and dandy except for the fact that neither boy was saying

Percy correctly..Both were pronouncing the er part of the word as a short u

sound. It was SO EMBARRASSING. I high tailed it out of the store as both boys

wailed how they wanted to go back to see " percy " LOL

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the laugh that was hysterical! Not related to apraxia -but yes

related to speech errors! When Tanner was little we were at a fancy event with

white gloved servers and the children were being served cookies on a silver

tray. Tanner was around 3 or 4 at the time and he pointed to the tray of

cookies and said " Do Do Doodie? " Which sounded just like it's spelled..and of

course like you I was horrified. He didn't seem to notice the other children

laughing. Of course this was around the time that he called my sister

(his Aunt ) " DooDoo " come to think of it. Good thing for the Kaufman

method and more appropriate substitutions!

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