Re: Severe, moderate or mild apraxia

[Guest guest]

I also would be interested to hear opinions on this. My boy is 24mths, and has

not been formally diagnosed as having apraxia. He is totally non verbal, having

not even one word in his vocabulary. He also makes very limited sounds, and has

little in the way of consnant sounds. I can't help but think he may be on the

severe side of things?

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> Hi There,

> Just wondering if anyone could tell me what the 'symptoms' are between the

three levels of apraxia. I am new to the group and I am reading a lot of

different posts and people refer to their child as having severe apraxia, mild

apraxia, and just wondering if there is a 'definition' that one would use to

classify these.

> My almost three year old son was diagnosed last week with apraxia, but I must

admit I have no idea of where he 'fits' and our next appointment in not until

next week.

> Thanks for your help.

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[Guest guest]

The diagnosis would depend upon if you meant in speech, or what part of the

body. In this group many think of apraxia as a speech impairment and in many

cases it is, but apraxia is a neurological motor planning disorder that can

affect any aspect of the human body for " on command " -even blowing your nose for

example.

It would be a professional in speech or neuromedical (pediatric neurologist or

developmental pediatrician) that can diagnosis apraxia and severity level -best

case evaluation is a team analysis of the individual. It used to be in Canada

for example that an SLP was not able to diagnosis= just a medical doctor but

don't know if that changed.

In regards to just speech however that's easy

http://www.cherab.org/information/speechlanguage/therapymatrix.html

Let us know!

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[Guest guest]

Hi Barb,

Thank you for your response. Our SLP has not actually finished his evaluation

yet, hopefully next week. She did say that he appears to be text book apratic.

I will speak with her more about it when I see her.

I was just being impatient!

Thanks again

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> > Hi There,

> > Just wondering if anyone could tell me what the 'symptoms' are between the

> three levels of apraxia. I am new to the group and I am reading a lot of

> different posts and people refer to their child as having severe apraxia,

> mild apraxia, and just wondering if there is a 'definition' that one would

> use to classify these.

> > My almost three year old son was diagnosed last week with apraxia, but I

> must admit I have no idea of where he 'fits' and our next appointment in not

> until next week.

> > Thanks for your help.

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