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Awww, bless her.

Sara

Eva family wrote:

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> That's Edith. Spot on.

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> When she was younger she would sometimes spontaneously under pressure

> (household emergency etc) talk properly " the bath is overflowing " then

> bring her full brain into gear and talk nonsense " Postman Pat will mend

> his van " ie there is a problem. As she's got better at nonsense the

> spontaneous sensible stuff has disappeared

>

> Sally

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> Sara Moroza- wrote:

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> > I think Tom's language comes 'from a different place' and to me that

> > means that he speaks English (and Lithuanian) like a foreigner. He has

> > had to learn language like an academic rather than acquire it and he has

> > learnt it in chunks like a phrase book and cannot manipulate it properly

> > like a native (I think I got that bit from RDI).

> > I really recognise the thing about being able to say one off really good

> > things subconsciously and then being unable to repeat them when he

> > thinks about it. To me that is when he taps into the part of the brain

> > that we normally use for language but I think those connections are weak

> > and break. The rest of it is coming from the bit of the brain that we

> > all use for language learning when we're older and we all struggle and

> > never quite make it. For example, a foreigner often makes 'mistakes' in

> > another language because they are translating from their own language

> > but Tom doesn't have his own language to translate from and seems to be

> > translating it from his thoughts. For example when a book falls off a

> > table he says 'oh no, the table has lost a book' and uses chunks from

> > videos for similar situations but without changing the component parts.

> > When he's hungry, instead of 'I'm hungry' he says 'Are you really hungry

> > Charlie?' (Charlie is the crocodile in Maisy). A while back whenever he

> > was sad he used to say 'I've ruined the teddy bears' picnic' which is

> > from a video and then cry his heart out.

> > Sara

> >

> > carolinetraa2000 wrote:

> > >

> > > Hi Mandi

> > >

> > > I dont remember that but I dont have a very good memory. What does

> that

> > > mean, a different place? Like from where normal speech production

> > > arises? I think its a really fascinating arera and have been lounging

> > > around all morning reading that Apraxia website and also that last

> link

> > > posted is brillaint, you are an ace woman for this and I

> love

> > > toys, play and should surely be a closet SLT or play therpaist or

> > > summat!!. Keep them coming. The last link had great activities for

> home

> > > educators or play, Calendars to make for 2009, fabby dooby.

> > > Luv Caz

> > > xxxxxxxxxxxx

> > > >

> > > > Surely if this was verbal apraxia

> > > > words wouldnt just appear at times would you say?

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > >>Do you remember at the HANDLE course said these sort of words

> > > come

> > > > from a different place?

> > > >

> > > > Mandi x

> > > >

> > >

> > >

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