Speech therapy frequency

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My son is 28 months old and until 2 months ago was pretty much non-verbal.

About 6 months ago, I suspected he might be apraxic and started him on Carlson

fish oil 1000mg/day with little change. He has had multiple medical problems

his entire life including chronic aspiration, eosinophilic esophagitis, chronic

fluid in his ears, eczema and multiple food allergies to corn, soy, peanuts,

tree nuts, and mustard seed. He had ear tubes placed at the end of October 2009

and by Christmas he had about 5-10 words in his vocabulary. In the last 2

months, he definitely is trying to say more words, but he still consistently

cuts off the ends of all words, often says just the ending syllable of a

multi-syllable word, and at times changes the sounds he makes for certain words.

He also has poor imitation ability and most of his speech comes during TV or

play. He started seeing an experienced SLP at the local children's hospital in

Indy 1x/wk about 5 weeks ago and he has not yet received an apraxia diagnosis.

She has been using the PROMPT method during therapy sessions and we currently

have pictures of foods he eats on magnet paper on the fridge. This has

definitely helped in relieving his frustrations, but I'm becoming more concerned

that his speech clarity is not improving. I'd say my husband and I can only

understand his speech about 25% of the time and that is with context. He has no

2 word phrases to date.

I'm just wondering if others out there without an official apraxia diagnosis are

only seeing SLP 1x/wk or is therapy more often? For those who were 1x/wk and

then increased to more frequent, did you see a big leap? Our insurance does

cover 60 therapy visits/year at 90% and he does still qualify for early

intervention services at $50/visit. Thanks in advance for any advice/ insight!

I just want the best for my son, especially with the rough past 2 years he has

had.