Re: Apraxia info. needed

[Guest guest]

hi there is a group for apraxia, its good

my son has apraxia

ASHA has some excellent articles

let me know how I can help

amy o

--- melindafaith2005 <melindafaith2005@...>

wrote:

> My sister and her husband are some what concerned

> that their child born

> in Oct 06 ( she is almost 15 months) can only

> verbalize maybe three

> words. (ma, da and one other word) Their daughter

> can point and

> definately understands the world around her. My

> sister says she is not

> too concerned and is not ready to check into things

> but her husband

> feels differently.

>

> My oldest sister has a child diagnosed with autism.

> He is doing very

> well in Junior High and does not appear autistic due

> to early

> inteventions that his mother gave. Very little

> biomedical interventions

> were given. He was diagnosed in early 90's.

>

> My daughter was diagnosed PDD-NOS Aug 05 and is

> doing wonderful. I

> consider her recovered. She has had intensive

> biomedical interventions.

>

> All sisters live far apart and are not very

> connected.

>

> I am looking for a check list for apraxia that I

> might share that might

> indicate whether my sister with the 15 month old

> should see an SLP. If

> it was me I would be right in but I think they are

> scared and are

> focusing on everything the child can do.

>

> If she should be concerned, I am looking for a

> gentle nudge. This

> family is fragile and information needs to be

> focused on what can be

> done.

>

> Thanks, Melinda

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Melinda,

http://www.cherab.org/information/indexinformation.html

Lots of links on the page I reference above. I'm sorry I don't know

how to hyperlink it. The book The Late Talker by Dr. Marilyn Agin

and