Re: Re: NV and huge children

[Guest guest]

Sorry I forgot to mention that my son has been diagnosed with apraxia of speech

and sensory processing disorder.  While he is doing well learning his new word

approximations, they are just that...approximations.  No one else would

understand him and most of his approximations are just a syllable or a partial

word.  His receptive language is very high (he scored 29 months in Dec. when he

was only 20 months) but expressively around 17 months with poor articulation.

 When we started this journey when he was 17 month old, he had no words,

limited sounds, loss of words, limited gestures, and many other issues.  When

he went to the Dr. in Dec., he had only begun speaking word approximations 2

weeks prior but it had really taken off.  Since then, we have not seen any

surges and I do not know whether to attribute his surge to therapy or fish oil

as we had started with a new therapist just shortly before he began speaking.

 Since my son is not too far

behind right now, I am trying everything to keep it that way.  I am hopeful

that he will catch up to his peers in the next couple of years as the dr

predicts.  Thank you very much for your advice and everyones continued support.

Krista 

From: kiddietalk <kiddietalk@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: NV and huge children

Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 7:02 PM

 

Krista do you mean you started nutriiveda 2 days ago Sunday (Super Bowl

Sunday) or over a week ago Sunday? Either way I'd stick with just the one scoop

a day for at least a few weeks and check with his doc if he says it's OK to

raise based on weight vs. age. Even though many of us are seeing surges in most

case days it would depend upon your child's receptive vs expressive ability. At

22 months your son may have a mild delay in speech, but due to his age he may

not surge to sentences in the next few days if developmentally he isn't ready

to. Is your son's receptive ability above his expressive? That could be one

sign of an impairment vs a simple delay.

Below are signs of what is typical or not typical for your child's age.

Typically seen in first 18-24 months

· Uses mostly words to communicate · Begins to use two word combinations (more

cookie etc) · By 24 months has more than 50 words, or word approximations

Cause for concern in first 18-24 months

· Relies on gestures to communicate · Limited vocabulary (speaks less than 50

words)

· Does not use any two word combinations · Limited consonant production ·

Mostly unintelligible speech · Regresses in language development: Stops

talking, repeats phrases inappropriately

http://www.cherab. org/information/ latetalkerhandou t.html

Also are you noticing any delays in any areas at all outside of speech? It is

again possible that your child just has a simple delay in speech and all that

means is that his receptive ability develops so will his expressive. You are

doing all the right things in that he is in Early Intervention and as you say

making progress in therapy and that's awesome! With the nutriiveda many of us

have children that have multifaceted aspects to a communication impairment with

diagnosis such as ADHD, autism, apraxia, TBI but we don't know what this will do

for a child with a simple delay in speech if that is what your child has (and

that would be a very good thing for you and your child!!) But for sure please

give it a few more days and please do let us know!

PS -yes when your child has a cold that could affect speech/progress as well.

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