Re: Grads Question

[Guest guest]

Sheila,

Congratulations to Kady, Miss DocBand February!

I am sorry to hear about Kady's language delay. Although I don't

personally have any info that might be of help to you, I did look

through the PLAGIOCEPHALY STUDIES AND RESEARCH folder in the LINKS

section of the group and found a few studies you might find of

interest. There are three; one that documents auditory processing

problems in babies with plagio, and two that study developmental

problems. These links go to abstracts (summaries) of the studies,

so to get the full article, you may need to purchase them or hunt

them up some other way. If the link is two lines long, will

only " activate " the first line of the link, meaning it won't work

right, so you may need to cut and paste the links to your address

bar. Studies links follow:

Take care,

Christie (Mom to Repo'd Remy)

Auditory ERPs Reveal Brain Dysfunction in Infants with Plagiocephaly

(pub. Jul. 2002)

In the current study we demonstrated, for the first time, that the

central sound processing, as reflected by ERPs, is affected in

children with plagiocephaly.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=12140415 & dopt=Abstract

Neurodevelopment in Children with Single-Suture Craniosynostosis and

Plagiocephaly without Synostosis (pub. Nov. 2001)

The objective of this study was to determine whether children with

nonsyndromic craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly without synostosis

demonstrated cognitive and psychomotor delays when compared with a

standardized population sample. 0 percent of the subjects in the

group with plagiocephaly without synostosis were accelerated, 67

percent were normal, 20 percent had mild delay, and 13 percent had

significant delay.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=11711916 & dopt=Abstract

U of Washington, Seattle Developmental Study

an abstract linking plagiocephaly w/ grade school probs

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

db=PubMed & cmd=Retrieve & list_uids=10654986 & dopt=Abstract

--- In Plagiocephaly , " Sheila " <sheilaras@c...>

wrote:

> Hello and long time no post. Kady graduated in February from her

> DocBand, she was 10 mo. Now she is 20 months and not speaking.

She

> has been diagnosed with a language delay (articulation disorder

and

> expressive language disorder) and we are starting therapy next

> month. I was just wondering if anyone else experienced this. I

have

> not seen any published information about a connection, but then

> again, maybe no one ever asked.

>

> On a positive note, I'm really happy with her head shape and she

is

> even in the DocBand calendar this year (Feb).

>

> Sheila & Kady (20 mo)

> DocBand Grad - MI

> Chicago Clinics

[Guest guest]

Hi Sheila:

Congrats to Kady being Miss February! I just took a look at my 2004

calendar, she's adorable

I'm very sorry to hear about her language delay, boy I can relate.

My plagio daughter turns 4 in March and has been in speech therapy

2x's a week since September. Abby speaks, but isn't very clear (I can

understand her 95% or so of the time) to others.

She's definitely progressing with her therapy. She's getting better

slowly but surely, but is still quite a bit behind where she " should

be " .

Anyhow, I've asked several people in the plagio field, medical field

& her speech therapist if they thought her plagio could be a factor

in it. Noone knows, it's nothing you can " prove " I suppose and is

something that I've since learned is actually more common that what

you may think as I see countless kids go in & out of Abby's speech

class. Abby's speech teacher of course, had never heard of plagio

before I asked but did tell me speech comes from the left side of the

brain, Abby's plagio is on her right, so that kind of answered my

question for me I guess, although I will always wonder IF her plagio

has contributed to her speech delays (she has some remaining flatness

unfortunately).

It's just something I think that is soooo hard to prove one way or

another being that speech delays happen to so many children. I am

still in touch with several other older plagio children parents thru

the internet (ages 2-4), none of their children are speech delayed

that I can think of, just Abby.

Anyhow, I'm rambling, but I wish you all the best with her speech

therapy & such. Believe me, I know how frustrating and upsetting it

is on us parents. This past summer at the park I had an older kid

ask me if Abby spoke English amongst other comments from many other

children It just rips my heart out.

Good luck with it, hang in there.

Debbie Abby's mom 3/1/00 DOCgrad 2/16/01-6/22/01

MI

>

> > Hello and long time no post. Kady graduated in February from her

> > DocBand, she was 10 mo. Now she is 20 months and not speaking.

> She

> > has been diagnosed with a language delay (articulation disorder

> and

> > expressive language disorder) and we are starting therapy next

> > month. I was just wondering if anyone else experienced this. I

> have

> > not seen any published information about a connection, but then

> > again, maybe no one ever asked.

> >

> > On a positive note, I'm really happy with her head shape and she

> is

> > even in the DocBand calendar this year (Feb).

> >

> > Sheila & Kady (20 mo)

> > DocBand Grad - MI

> > Chicago Clinics

[Guest guest]

Where do you go for therapy? We will also be in therapy 2x/week

beginning next week. We will go to Beaumont in Troy. I'm hoping

that since was diagnosed early, that she won't be in therapy too

long. We're hoping it's just an oral motor problem and not a

learning disability, but we'll have to wait and see how the therapy

goes.

Thanks for your response, it was very helpful!!

Sheila

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for those links, it's a great place to start

researching.

Sheila