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I have been hovering and reading a lot from this group. I have 28

month old son. We have been doing speech thearpy for 3 months now.

I just started him on 1 ProEFA a day on the 10th of October and have

seen only changes in behavior and they have not been good. A lot of

screaming but it is getting better.

I have been reading that my son should see a Pediatric Neruologist or

a Developmental Pediatrician. What is the difference? I was looking

on my health ins. site to see who is in-network and the only one I

can find for right now is the Neruo. We have to switch ins. at the

beginning of the year and under the new plan I can find each kind of

doctor in-network. So my 2nd question is do I go to the Neruo now or

do I wait? 3rd do I need to see both kinds of Drs?

I am not sure if my son is pure apraxic or not. He doesn't really

seem to have any other issues besides speech and a little bit of in-

toeing (which is going away with the help of shoes). Before speech

therapy he would only use vowels for all words. He did have dada but

has since lost it. I think he may have low tone in his mouth and

tounge but that seems to be getting better also. What is low tone?

My new SLP is far better then the last one that we had. The first

had him sitting in a structured setting where he didn't really

improve. Now we are at home and for 1 hour each week play and do

speech therapy. He has an m now where he used to just call me ah ah,

now I am m a e. They don't quite string together yet. Still working

on the 2nd m.

Thanks for any advice you can give. Everyday is something different

for me and my boys.

Terry

Mom to

Logan 5

Gavin 2.4 (apraxia and who knows)