Re: Oral Apraxia and Tongue Tied??

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Your son sounds like mine even down to the drooling & the enlarged Adenoids -

all except the " tonge tied " What is this? What is the doctor going to do?

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> My 4 1/2 year old was recently seen by an ENT (ear, nose and throat) doctor

because I was concerned about his hearing and also mouth breathing. His hearing

was fine. He has enlarged adenoids which is why he is breathing through his

mouth. The true shocker was that we were told that he is tongue tied. My

husband is also tongue tied and had his clipped when he was a child.

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> My question is how did the speech pathologists not catch this. The ENT seemed

very surprised that no one ever told us.

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> When my son was 3, the school district said that he had signs of Apraxia. He

could not blow bubbles, make funny faces, purse his lips to blow kisses, he used

to drool. He can protrude his tongue slightly but he can't move his tongue side

to side or to the roof of his mouth. He cannot lick ice-cream, etc..

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> Was he misdiagnosed? I just don't understand, how so many speech pathologists

missed this. I did ask one speech pathologist about this and they told me that

he was not tongue tied.

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> I'm so upset about this. My son has been through alot of speech therapy and

he is doing great but how can I deprive him the use of his tongue when a

surgical procedure can fix this.

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