What age did your child start talking?

[Guest guest]

thank you for telling me about your son's words.  I think people are lying to

my friend.  They keep telling her once he gets one word he will start talking

like everyone else.  they make it sound like it will be hard but they do not

say at 8 he will only have a handful of words.  That does make sense though his

progress is very slow almost to a stop.

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> From: Leona King <zoo.4kingsgmail (DOT) com>

> 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 them

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

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> Leona

[Guest guest]

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.4kingsgmail (DOT) com>

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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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[Guest guest]

, every child is different. My daughter is also severely apraxic and

has said her first word after she turned 4. She will be 5 tomorrow and has

so many words now. For her once she got that first word out it just

cascaded. many words are still not completely clear but she is making

amazing progress daily. She is not talking like everyone else but with the

right therapy she eventually will.

anja

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Christiansen <

cathychristiansen84@...> wrote:

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> thank you for telling me about your son's words. I think people are lying

> to my friend. They keep telling her once he gets one word he will start

> talking like everyone else. they make it sound like it will be hard but

> they do not say at 8 he will only have a handful of words. That does make

> sense though his progress is very slow almost to a stop.

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> > From: Leona King <zoo.4kingsgmail (DOT) com>

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

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> > @groups. com

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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 them

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> > 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]

mine too and ours is 5

[Guest guest]

My son had about 10 words and 150-200 signs when he was 32 months. I started

him on one nordic naturals 3 6 9 fish oil a day and three days later he had a

language explosion. He lost his signs and has about 200 words and he's 34

months. He sometimes babbles with words mixed in, but if he really is trying to

tell you something he finds that word and says it.

[Guest guest]

Josh had sounds until about 16 months old - then febrile seizure.  after that

he lost all sounds and eventually had a " ba " sound he used for everything until

he was a little over 3.5 years old.  I joined here at that point, started on

fish oils, and within 3 weeks he had words - hard to understand, but words. 

he's 11.5 now and talks up a storm - don't know how many words, won't shut up! 

LOL!  he's still hard to understand at times (when he gets tired in

particular), but he has tons of stories he tells, things he remembers from when

he was little, etc.  his receptive language was always better and continues to

be better.

[Guest guest]

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..

[Guest guest]

Hi anja

Can you advise which therapy worked for you? We are doing ABA and now adding

The Listening Programme and probably soon Nuffield. Our daughter cannot say any

words, just syllables

Thanks

[Guest guest]

My daughter at 3. 5 could barely say mama--in fact she couldn't could say

ma----but adding the second syllable was a hit or miss and she only said NO at 2

years and pretty much no words to speak of, the few that were sometimes

intelligible were then lost for months at a time or completely changed, so she

pretty much only had inconsistent jargon and vocalizations --and tantrums galore

until----well, I'm not sure how much age had to do with it but once we

implemented diet/supplements--all the biomedical interventions that began to

address her impaired methylation processes, and impaired detoxification, and

fatty acid malabsorption, and leaky gut and all of that---well then her speech

progress just soared.

She went from being severely apraxic at 3.5 and extremely difficult to deal with

to being only moderately apraxic now at 5.4 and she's mainstreamed in a regular

kindergarten, and doing well, her behavior is great, still needs some social

skills since she missed so much and we do therapy almost every day so there's

less time for her to socialize, but other than that we're doing really good. So

age didn't mean anything for us--but getting her metabolic processing and

detoxification and methylation and leaky gut and malabsorptions, and food

intolerances, and overall inflammation--taken care of has sure made a world of

difference.

Good luck to all!

Elena

From: Myra Bauza <myra.bauza@...>

Subject: [ ] 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]

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

writing skills?

[Guest guest]

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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