Easy does it for Apraxia - does anyone have experience with this book?

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Hi everyone. In anticipation of my son moving from EI to the public school's

speech therapy program (it is highly unlikely that he will qualify for the

preschool program since speech is his only delay) in November I am trying to

find a good program that I can use to work with my son at home. I have grave

concerns that the local public school speech therapy offerings will be

inadequate at best. He does receive PROMPT therapy via our private insurance,

but the therapist has dropped him to 1/week sessions.

Her reasoning for reducing speech therapy from two 30-minute session per week to

one 30-minute session was because he scored in the 48th percentile on the

Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation 2 (GFTA-2). My problem with this test is

that it appeared to judge him based on his ability to reproduce simple, single

words. His intelligibility is generally ok if he's only using 2 or 3 words

together. His intelligibility drops severely when he's stringing together

multiple sentences containing several words... especially when he's trying to

express complex thoughts. No one (including me) understands what he's saying.

The compound effect of increased errors and inconsistencies makes him

unintelligible. She did note this in her report to the insurance company but

still recommended only one 30-minute session per week. I'm ok with that right

now because he's receiving 2 hours of speech therapy per week under an EI SLP

who uses the Kaufman method; however, on Nov 13th that goes away and I'm left at

the mercy of the speech therapists at our local public school. Supposedly

they're both trained in Kaufman, but I haven't been able to meet either of them

yet and I have no idea what the school is going to be able to offer to him in

terms of time... and I won't until well into October.

To make a long story short (too late!!) I want to be prepared to supplement

whatever the public school does or doesn't have to offer. I did speak to our EI

SLP and she says she used to use Easy Does it for Apraxia

(http://www.linguisystems.com/itemdetail.php?id=37) when she worked for the

public school system for any child who was unintelligible and that it seems to

work well for everyone. I was just wondering if anyone else had any experience

with it or if others would recommend different books.

thanks!

-les