Guest guest Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 My daughter is 9yo. She's had severe apraxia all her life. not one single Ped Neuro, not one teacher or any of her nine years of therapists ever suggested she had any kind of LD. The exact opposite! Its never been mentioned in any of her reports and they knew in prek (she went to a special needs prek, where she was the most severe case of Apraxia they'd ever seen, that was six years ago) that she was never ever suspected of having a LD. No correlation here ever! > > I just read one or 2 posts on this. My son is in a special private speech school > for prek- specializing in speech/language needs. At this school, the thought > with apraxic kids is that they are at very high risk for developing a LD later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Was she deemed " language delayed " (in my son's case, his is mild) as well as having apraxia? His SLP (the one who works with us in the clinic; he has a separate SLP as his lead teacher) says " well, apraxia + some language delay is what could put him at high risk for LD. " Still, my friends who are the SLP and LD teacher said, " not always true- no correlation even with the language delay. Language delay is just language delay. " We do wonder....our SLP (and she has been wonderful till this " high risk " LD stuff) also works on a team (with psychologists) who do the psych. ed. testing. I'm not against the testing, but a mom of another boy with apraxia (similar to my son's level, but he also has stuttering and turrets) had it done and it just says, " he's at high risk for developing an LD later. " now, he just turned 5 and is starting to read. they're suggesting a small class, mainstream school for him. I tend to think this " high risk for LD thing just b/c you have apraxia " is a fall back for them b/c if they really felt he was at high risk for an LD, wouldn't they go ahead and put him in an LD school? They said, " No, he'd be a superstar in an LD classroom and doesn't need it? " That just seems contradictory. My son is young enough that we can put off that testing till next year. Others say this is young (4) to be having that testing done, but they insist it's accurate and won't change much as they get older and have more therapy/schooling/general development. The moms who have done this testing have not been impressed. The only ones it has really helped are those who already knew their kids were highly dyslexic. They needed the diagnose to put them in an LD school, but the others said it really didn't say anything conclusive at all (b/c they're so young and all they can say is " at risk for...... " ________________________________ From: mosense <mosense@...> Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 8:14:05 AM Subject: [ ] Re: apraxia- LDs My daughter is 9yo. She's had severe apraxia all her life. not one single Ped Neuro, not one teacher or any of her nine years of therapists ever suggested she had any kind of LD. The exact opposite! Its never been mentioned in any of her reports and they knew in prek (she went to a special needs prek, where she was the most severe case of Apraxia they'd ever seen, that was six years ago) that she was never ever suspected of having a LD. No correlation here ever! > > I just read one or 2 posts on this. My son is in a special private speech >school > > for prek- specializing in speech/language needs. At this school, the thought > with apraxic kids is that they are at very high risk for developing a LD later. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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