Re: speech therapist in toronto area

October 31, 2009

I'm not familiar with that type of therapy. HOw does it compare to prompt? I'm

trying to figure out what therapy to try. So far it's been straight speech

therapy (because they thought it was delay vs apraxia). Beth

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> Hi there,

> I take my son to a clinic called Blue Balloon in Burlington.

> The therapists are all trained in Sara Rosenfeld-'s oral motor therapy

techniques.

> We live in Kitchener and it is a 45 minute drive but they are the closest

clinic that I've found to us that are so knowledgeable about oral motor therapy.

> Blue Ballon brought Sara Rosenfeld- up from Arizona to do workshops in

order to train their staff. That was in the spring. I was lucky enough to get

an appointment with Sara. She assessed my son and confirmed that he has

apraxia. She set up a full program for him and our therapist at Blue Balloon is

implementing it.

> Blue Balloon is actually opening up another clinic in Waterloo in February and

they also have a site in Toronto so you have a couple of options on where to go

depending on where you live.

> Here is a link that you can check out (for the Burlington site). If this

doesn't work just google 'Blue Balloon'.

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> http://www.blue-balloon.com/

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> I hope this helps!

> Stacey

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November 1, 2009

Hi Stacey

Thanks for the information. I am also in Kitchener. My son is almost 4 and has

been in speech therapy since he was 6 months old (at Kidsability). We started a

private therapist 4 weeks ago and she mentioned that Adam fits the apraxia

diagnosis. We are seeing improvements with her methods in these 4 weeks already

but it is interesting to learn of other therapy places and methods.

Thank you

mom to Adam age 3 chromosome 13 deletion, hypotonia, sensory processing

issues,

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