apraxia and phonological skills?

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Hello! I am sort of new to the group. Our daughter turns three in April and was

diagnosed with having Apraxia several times within the past year. In the six

months after she turned two, she made enormous strides in expressive language

(from <10 words to more than we could keep track of) and her receptive skills

continued to grow at a normal rate. In her last evaluation, she tested in the

3rd percentile for phonological skills, saying that she was severely impaired

phonological skills. Luckily she does not seem hindered by this fact and in a

comfortable situation she talks alot! I understand about 90% of what she says,

my husband about 70% and the outsider about 40-50%. She usually follows the same

pattern with sounds, but not always (substitutes most beginning consonants with

/b/, but some with /p/, etc).

So my questions are, is this typical with Apraxia? She can say some sounds

isolated, like hard /c/, but cow is " bow " . We are seeing an SLP twice a week,

but are there things I can do at home, besides sitting and drilling her with

sounds? I've seen a few posts about Nutriveda- would someone in her case benefit

from this as well? Also, we're giving her the Nordic Naturals 3.6.9 Junior-

should I look into the Pro EPA and Pro EFA- is this different and better?

Also, if anyone has any book or web recs that would be great too! We have It

Takes Two to Talk which seemed to help initially with expressive language.

I will also look through the archives, just wanted to post as well. Thank you so

much for any advice and insight!

Best,

Marie