Re: apraxia and child size??

[Guest guest]

Are kids with apraxia underweight and failure to thrive?  My friends son is very

very small and they worry it is a sing of another diagnosis and not just speech

apraxia. 

From: Jadenemm@... <Jadenemm@...>

Subject: Re: [ ] Averaging Receptive and Expressive Language

Scores?

Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 6:59 PM

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> I am beginning to prepare myself for my sons 3 year old evaluation to see if

he qualifies for EC. I have been told by a few people that I would consider are

'in the know' that my son may not qualify for services because his receptive is

so high and since they average the scores he may not be low enough. When I asked

if there was a way around this I was basically told no. Do I have any options

here? They make it sound like they cannot score these areas separately, is this

true? Thank you all in advance for your help, I appreciate it!

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[Guest guest]

Is he a picky eater? That could be a cause of FTT & small size.

Warmest wishes,

Barbara A , M.S.,CCC-SLP

Executive Director,

Help Me Speak, LLC

www.helpmespeak.com

On Jul 23, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Christiansen <cathychristiansen84@...>

wrote:

> Are kids with apraxia underweight and failure to thrive? My friends son is

very very small and they worry it is a sing of another diagnosis and not just

speech apraxia.

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[Guest guest]

Sounds like they're looking for another diagnosis?

I've never heard of the " physical characteristics " that go along with

Apraxia--its a neurological condition. no therapist or doctor associated what

she looked like with her severe apraxia, they did with her other three diagnosis

but not her speech issues. She's never been underweight--has always been right

where she should be and loves food--but thats besides the point. I hope they

find some answers for your friends son.

Maureen

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> Are kids with apraxia underweight and failure to thrive?  My friends son is

very very small and they worry it is a sing of another diagnosis and not just

speech apraxia. 

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[Guest guest]

Not everything is a sign of a diagnosis. But of course it would be up to a

medical doctor to determine if the failure to thrive is based in any diagnosis.

My son for example who is apraxic was always taller than most and this can be a

sign of a genetic condition so they did a wrist X ray which was part of his

genetic testing (all came back normal) and the determination was that Tanner's

bone age was younger than his chronological age. What does that mean you may

ask because that's what I asked....he's going to be very tall. Tanner just

turned 14 in June and is just about 6 foot tall and I don't believe he's done

growing yet so that was for sure true!!

Hate to beat a dead horse because I know it's pretty much the more educated

parents right now that hear me but nutriiveda is helping for those children with

poor growth - in addition to these areas of reported surges pretty much across

the board http://pursuitofresearch.org/pursuit.html it's helping in areas of

height, muscle growth and weight which you can read some testimonies here

http://pursuitofresearch.org/testimonials.html and here in the archives. It's

just good and easily digestible nutrition and if you need help getting good

nutrition in -here are some suggestions

http://pursuitofresearch.org/serving_suggestions.html (not up here yet but

someone posted a rice krispy treat recipe I'm going to try today)

But if you just want to read about failure to thrive -there are tons of parent

friendly articles all over the web if you google it -here's just one

http://kidshealth.org/parent/food/weight/failure_thrive.html

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[Guest guest]

I agree - sounds like something different - Josh is 12 years old, 5'2 " , and

weighs about 150 pounds - kind of off the charts or close to it.

 

Sherry and Josh