NV has kicked in FINALLY :)

July 15, 2010

Hello-wanted to give you all the update-

My almost 3 yo has been on NV since February (he has both PDD and Apraxia).

knows that i have been emailing in saying that the NV was helping a great deal

with the PDD, but no help with the Apraxia (he did go from saying nothing to

making noise, but nothing else). About a month ago, i upped his NV dose from 1

scoop a day to 1 1/2 scoops. he also gets 1/2 tsp of fish oil (he won't do the

chewable Nordic products, so we use the Barleans which is close to Nordic

products).

For the past 3 weeks, we have started his summer speech camp days a week, OT and

a new SLT and a chriopractor (he has a droopy mouth). For the past week, he has

actually both for us and the other SLT tried to say the begining sounds of some

words (m for more). Today, I actually got it on video that he mouthed the " p "

sound in " up " for finally after about 15 minutes of trying saying the p sound

which he has never done before. Also, in his music therapy class yesterday, he

totally out of the blue INITIATED TURN TAKING with his therapist with full eye

contact (unheard of with a PDD kid)!!! he is still going on sensory overload

(he is totally craving pressure around his face), but maybe his mouth and body

are waking up!!!

Secondly-I did go to the National Apraxia conference and it was totally awesome.

The univeristy of Southern Mississippi is doing some amazing stuff with the

Dubard Theory. Also, there is some new work that is coming out of the

University of Arizona that shows that with Apraxia, less feedback from the SLT

may actually be better than 100% feedback. Example-some SLT will correct or say

" good job " with every sound (100% of the time) the child makes. They found if

you cut it down to 60%, your child will actually get more out of the session

because it gives the childs brain time to process their language themselves to

deteremine if they did it correctly or not and the child actually may

self-correct. When the therapist tells them it was right or wrong, the won't go

through this step.

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