Re: What age did your child start talking?

[Guest guest]

. He only has a few words Mom Dad gamma for grandma agg for his twin

brother Gage noo for no ow for cow. But he tries so hard and makes himself

get people to understand one way or the other by signing or he has a dynavox

if you can get the school to use it If he didn't try so hard to be able to

talk I would give up but he wants to be likes everyone else so much I see it

in his face when he's watching other kids it is sad and hard to see it.

Going back to your question he was always able to say mom dad just came

about 6months ago and at first it just was ad instead of dad and the rest

just lately we work on whatever he tries to say long and hard slow progress

but we feel that the apraxia is global because he did not crawl or walk

until almost 3 but he does it now and is able to ride a hotwheel bike. We

have him mainstream in school fought long and hard for that he gets pulled

out for most everything though and he has behaviors from frustration not

being able to talk he has a I.B.I therapist with him trough out the day .

We know he can read just able to write not the best but you c an understand

it. They gave us the diagnose as pdd nos pervasive developmental delay not

other wise specified. We went to Seattle to get the diagnose apraxia .

Leona

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Christiansen <

cathychristiansen84@...> wrote:

> Leona,

> when did your son start talking? I have a friend whose boy has apraxia and

> he is almost 3 and does not have any words yet.

> cathy

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> From: Leona King <zoo.4kings@...>

> Subject: Re: [ ] Re: my apraxia book

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> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 10:03 AM

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> I would buy one if not more for all who work with my 8 year old boy

> who has

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> severe apraxia I find the kids react the way teachers react some of them

> are

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> great some are not. Thanks please let me know when it will be available.

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> Leona

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[Guest guest]

My son literally started talking at age 6

In a message dated 1/13/2010 9:05:33 A.M. Central Standard Time,

hrashid@... writes:

Mine is nearly 3 and hardly has any words. The worst thing about it is that

his understanding is limited too.

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> > From: Leona King <zoo.4kings@...>

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> > Subject: Re: [childrensapraxiane t] Re: my apraxia book

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> > Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 10:03 AM

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> > I would buy one if not more for all who work with my 8 year old boy

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> > severe apraxia I find the kids react the way teachers react some of

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[Guest guest]

Hi ;

I am responding to your message about your friends child who is 3 and does not

speak yet. One gentle way to ease your friend into addressing her childs

communication disorder is by sharing a new childrens book recently published

titled The Big Book of Exclamations. The book is designed by a pediatric speech

pathologist to promote speech sound development and imitation of gestures,

sounds, and words. Not only is it a fun book which even minimally verbal

children can feel successful using, the book also lists information about

speech/language development and resources for those seeking advice. The book

will show her new ways to stimulate her child AND it will encourage her to set

her fears aside and ask for help - reminding her she will feel more at ease once

she takes that first step. Many parents have shared with me the fear they harbor

at this initial point of realization - and the issue then becomes about them and

how their childs inability to communicate is affecting them - its not even about

the child at that point..... however once they do reach out for help,parents

report such relief! Best wishes to you both!!

Peg

[Guest guest]

my daughter was talking at 3 years and one month in full sentences and reading

at 3 years and 3 months at an 8 year old level

From: Huizenga <dave@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: What age did your child start talking?

Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 1:14 PM

 

With regard to the age each child started talking---how was the reading

and writing skills?

[Guest guest]

hi elena, how did yoo do or start all the interventions you did for your kid?

are all those test covered by insurnce, pls help me  i dont know where to start

to help my child? thank you

From: Myra Bauza <myra.bauzachase (DOT) com>

Subject: [childrensapraxiane t] Re: What age did your child start talking?

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Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 10:38 AM

my son who is now 8 y.o. and speaking pretty well didn't have his first words

until about age 4 and then most could not understand him. At age 5 he had a few

more and most could not understand him. By age 6, his speaking abilities

improved tremendously. ...and has continued to improve since. He currently is

understood by most but his vocabulary is limited but growing....I would say he

speaks like a " normal " 5 y.o..

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[Guest guest]

Razel,

Your city (or county) depending on where you live is responsible to help you

with your child. (If you are in the US)

They should assess your child.

Mer

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Razel K. Saralde

<razelkaibigan@...>wrote:

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> hi elena, how did yoo do or start all the interventions you did for your

> kid? are all those test covered by insurnce, pls help me i dont know where

> to start to help my child? thank you

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[Guest guest]

my son is delayed in both reading & writing skills. He started " talking " at

around 6 y.o. and he's now 8....but he is progressing rapidly...

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[mailto: ] On Behalf Of Huizenga

Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:15 PM

Subject: [ ] Re: What age did your child start talking?

With regard to the age each child started talking---how was the reading and

writing skills?

[Guest guest]

My 8dd wasnt talking at all in Early Intervention. It was the EI SLP who

suggested we start sign at 1yr old. She could say a couple words thru special

needs preschool--5days/week Speech 4x week. I think they were doing a lot of

oral motor in prek, her Apraxia dx came at the very end of prek. The prek SLP

immediately went out and took a workshop on Apraxia as soon as my dd got her

dx!!

I was not aware of this group back than and we did no form of supplements. She

started K where she continued Kaufman trained SLP 4x week, including Prompt and

whatever else was necessary! By Christmas of K she was saying a couple 2 word

sentences but still using sign mostly. Slowly she got better. Now at 8yrs old

she is talking in full sentences! Everyone in her school and family are amazed

at her progress.

As far as reading: The K-2 self-contained classroom teacher used the standard

method of teaching the alphabet sounds, and putting them together to make words.

After two years of that--they realized it was not working!! They started using

the Edmark System-which is learning complete words by connecting them with

pictures over and over again until she just started reading the words. She

quickly progressed thru that and is now on the second section of words and picks

them up very quickly now!!

She learned to write her first name and now in the Gr 3-5 self contained class

she can write her first and last name. Her writing is very legible too!

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> With regard to the age each child started talking---how was the reading and

writing skills?

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[Guest guest]

Our son began to talk at age 16 mos - just a few words, but lost them at age 26

mos. At age 12 now he has NO words. But I wanted to say something about READING.

I am a big fan of the Glenn Doman books " How to teach your baby to read " because

it worked with our son at age 3. I loved using the method. It was fun and

brought quick results. Now that our son is older and has many learning problems

it is such a blessing that he can read! (And, by the way, the Glenn Doman method

encourages teaching multiple languages to our kids so our son recognizes words

in German and Spanish!)I would REALLY encourage you to check out that method and

use it with your young child. They say his method is best with kids up until 6

years old.

(ny 12)

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no words at 12?  Is his only diagnosis speech apraxia?  Has anyone said he may

be on the spectum with a form of autism?

From: hubby4kids <hubby4kids@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: What age did your child start talking?

Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 7:44 AM

 

Our son began to talk at age 16 mos - just a few words, but lost them at

age 26 mos. At age 12 now he has NO words. But I wanted to say something about

READING. I am a big fan of the Glenn Doman books " How to teach your baby to

read " because it worked with our son at age 3. I loved using the method. It was

fun and brought quick results. Now that our son is older and has many learning

problems it is such a blessing that he can read! (And, by the way, the Glenn

Doman method encourages teaching multiple languages to our kids so our son

recognizes words in German and Spanish!)I would REALLY encourage you to check

out that method and use it with your young child. They say his method is best

with kids up until 6 years old.

(ny 12)

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[Guest guest]

when you say he started talking at six was he making efforts prior to that

or did he have any words What do you think brought about his speech? Thanks

Caroline..

[Guest guest]

He was making sounds, but not really meaningful sounds.... he could say his

vowels which I guess is important, but words didn't make any sense when he

said them. Then we started the PRO EFA and PRO EPA and started hearing a

little more but nothing big, The thing that helped him too was he had a

teacher that worked with him so hard to the point where he could form a

sentence on a sentence strip with the PECS system, that helped him start to get

individual words like water, pizza, etc, again very basic, he is on the

autism spectrum and has apraxia. He could then make a sentence like " I want

pizza. " We noticed some obsessive compulsive tendencies, for him, and it runs

in our family so he is on a very low dose of Luvox, which minimized some of

the obsessive things that would distract him from really paying attention.

So far so good, he has come so far, has a long way to go, but never

thought he would be talking like this ever, I am so pleased. Lots of things

articulate wise he needs work with but when he asks for something we know what

it is, we don't need the PECS any longer, he always understood what was said

to him and he also had a teacher work real early with him on answering yes

no questions, printed out the PECS pictures for yes and no, nodding of the

head, which also helped. Jen

In a message dated 1/15/2010 6:46:16 A.M. Central Standard Time,

jcbgalvin@... writes:

when you say he started talking at six was he making efforts prior to

that or did he have any words What do you think brought about his speech?

Thanks Caroline..

[Guest guest]

Progressing with the standard mainstream methods or are you using a special

program?

[Guest guest]

My concern at this point is the reading. Our son was diagnosed at age 3 and

will be 7 this month. He has received two days of Speech Therapy for 30 minutes

each session with the same again each week from he School District Speech Path.

We do have him on Fish Oil which very noticeably improved his behavior and has

helped his speech.

Letter recognition and the sound of each letter seems to be very difficult for

him which in turn makes reading very difficult. My questions is does this

normal for a apraxic child or could this be dysphasia or aphasia?

[ ] Re: What age did your child start talking?

did your child that was talking in full sentences and reading at an 8

year old level at 3 have any sort of speech delay? If so it was probably

developmental. I think that is what was asking for was the age that

children with impairments of speech start talking more as I know how desperate

we are to know when we'll hear the words " ma " or " da " or (gasp) " I love you " but

could be wrong.

it depends on so many variables. Age of diagnosis, severity of the

diagnosis, is the diagnosis multifaceted or is it just limited to one aspect,

how good is the therapy, therapist, placement if preschool age or above, is the

child resistant or willing in therapy, is the child on fish oils, and then....

The question of what do we as parents consider " talking " and what do strangers

consider " talking " ? It's all relevant you see.

So while when 's child was talking in full sentences at 3...I was in

a self induced belief that my son Tanner was also talking in full sentences at 3

years old...really check the archives!!!

When my son Tanner was 3 years old saying " Die Die Die Die Die " That meant a

number of things:

I want to go outside (if pointing out a window)

I want to go on the ride (if pointing to the ride)

These are too tight (if pointing to his pants)

" Bo Bo Bo Bo " meant

either Where is the ball? or Where is my brother?

" Tea Tea Tea Tea Me? "

That only meant " can I have a tiny bit? "

" High High High "

That meant if he had his hands up in the air and we were pouring juice " I want

lots of juice so fill it up high in the cup "

Now take any one word and break it down -model it for him...and he could

repeat it back in his way. Like going Trick or Treating and saying Trick or

Treat...that was " tea ah tea " or something like that -and I had to say each word

first (also in the archives)

Also how clearly is the child talking? How complex the sentences? Is their

reflection monotone and flaccid where they sound deaf...or do they talk

" normally " or what a stranger would consider sounding normal? You can listen to

some children with apraxia speaking at the Talking Page (including my son

Tanner...the first time he was taped for this was after 8 months of fish oils

however which as all know created a massive surge in his speech..and why he no

longer presented as " classic " apraxia -like most with apraxia on the fish oils.

The nutriiveda...who knows how this adds to the equation but once again the

nutriiveda has risen up there to one of my most favorite " treatments " in the

world- ever. Just remarkable -but unfortunately unlike the fish oils nobody has

any idea why it may be working (outside supporting metabolic which does make

sense)

The Talking Page http://www.debtsmart.com/talk is the inspiration for

this page and he has been talking since 5 or 6..he's now a teen and still has

some impairments there but he's still talking. Again...it's all relevant as a

question.

As far as age youngest for a child to talk? Here's a baby that says hello at 2

months

Fortunately for our late talker children we know that age of speech has

nothing to do with intelligence of the child (and here's one good time to remind

everyone to look at Einstein!)

As far as reading -lots of that but may want to take a look at this for now -I

plan on starting a section on this for us with older children at Big Tent

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=115029735601 & topic=7787

Join us at Big Tent https://www.bigtent.com/groups/cherab

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[Guest guest]

Ask the SD to try the Edmark Reading System. My 8dd is/was considered one of the

most severe cases of Apraxia by her doctors and all the SLP's she's had since

EI and now with the SD SLP. Edmark was the answer to two years of wasted time

trying to learn letters and sounds! She started about a year ago and is now

reading sentences and she was the same age as your son when she started!

Maureen

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> My concern at this point is the reading. Our son was diagnosed at age 3 and

will be 7 this month.

>

> Letter recognition and the sound of each letter seems to be very difficult

for him which in turn makes reading very difficult. My questions is does this

normal for a apraxic child or could this be dysphasia or aphasia?

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[Guest guest]

Thanks Maureen!

[ ] Re: What age did your child start talking?

Ask the SD to try the Edmark Reading System. My 8dd is/was considered one of

the most severe cases of Apraxia by her doctors and all the SLP's she's had

since EI and now with the SD SLP. Edmark was the answer to two years of wasted

time trying to learn letters and sounds! She started about a year ago and is now

reading sentences and she was the same age as your son when she started!

Maureen

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> My concern at this point is the reading. Our son was diagnosed at age 3 and

will be 7 this month.

>

> Letter recognition and the sound of each letter seems to be very difficult

for him which in turn makes reading very difficult. My questions is does this

normal for a apraxic child or could this be dysphasia or aphasia?

>

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