Dsyfluency/Speech Disorder - Re: Pro EFA and Vitamin supplement question

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Hi Kim,

With , you didn't mention if there were also signs of

apraxia. There would be other signs if she did have a neurologically

based disorder like apraxia-for example, many children with apraxia

also have low tone (hypotonia-where they look cherub like) or sensory

integration, etc. This is why we recommend comprehensive evaluations

with speech as well as neurodevelopmental doctors who are both

respected and knowledgeable about apraxia and other disorders.

We've seen and heard positive things in many areas for children with

the ProEFA for apraxia, late talking, behavior, focus, motor planning

issues, skin...

but I unfortunately know about the dysfluency/apraxia issue too for

personal reasons and can tell you about that and ProEFA.

Tanner, who is now 4 years and 9 months has the same dysfluency

issues you describe that " come and go " as . The " come and go "

dysfluency is almost more of an issue than the apraxia at this

point. Tanner's been supplemented with fish oil since before he was

three, and the dysfluency started about age 4 when Tanner started to

try to talk more. Tanner is talking all the time now, where he would

just say a few things before spontaneously, so perhaps it's just more

obvious and there is more he's trying to tell us.

The " stuttering " stage is partly developmental, and it could be partly

motor planning, but children, like my son Tanner who have apraxia

tend to go through this " stage " later than normal, and many apraxic

children that do go through it tend to get stuck in it.

I know there has been some interesting research into dysfluency with

brain scans and all, but the dysfluency from apraxia is not the same

from what I'm told. If your child is not apraxic, and is dyfluent,

there is a wealth of information online for you to research.

Unfortunately there just is not enough research into apraxia to know

all the twists and turns, and how best to handle them. The good news

is that if your child is in the dysfluency stage and he or she is

apraxic, then he or she is probably really starting to communicate

thoughts and ideas, which is wonderful.

As far as the blocked ears from ear infections, during language

development depending how long the sounds were blocked could have

affected her ability to talk early. You can even find information

on this from one of the schools for the hearing impaired in your area.

Where I live in NJ, they are some of the best schools for apraxic children since

they are academic, and their speech therapies that work for hearing

impaired in the class seem to work for apraxic children too. They

have a high success rate. Our speaker for the homebase CHERAB

meeting, May 7 at the Children's Specialized Hospital in

Mountainside, NJ is Dr. Joan Sheppard from Columbia, who is also

going to speak at the next NJSHA conference on teaching hearing

apraxic children in schools for the hearing impaired. You can

explore for all the details in the archives for this grouplist at

, or for next

month's homebase CHERAB meeting information at http://www.apraxia.cc

We have a new website being built for us right now (by professionals-

not me...yeah!!!) The new site should be done soon too!

About the ProEFA by the way, you all may want to pick up this weeks

Newsweek since I was told there is an article on Omega 3s and 6s

(like the ProEFA you can find at

http://shopinserviceinc.goemerchant2.com/) written by one of CHERAB's

board members Stoll MD from Harvard who just wrote The Omega 3

Connection.

Best,