- Re: Are there children who have apraxia with Motor planning issues

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Traci -

I'm in Cincinnati - if you come here I can tell you whom to see,

unfortunately, Youngstown is about as close as California! (If

you're not from Ohio, Youngstown is about 4 hours away.) Email me if

you are interested in hearing about Cincinnati Children's for an

evaluation of your daugher. It wouldn't offer you any sources for

therapy as it's too far to travel, but it might give you some

options. My youngest was evaluated for autism/pdd and after 1.5

hours with a dev psych, she said NO WAY - though others thought he

might be. If he had been having a " bad day " where he doesn't feel

well and he withdraws, could have swung the other way.

Good luck = sorry I'm not more help.

Best - Marina

PS Someone else here is from Youngstown. Who is it???

>

> > , Thank you for replying back to me, I did have to a

> neuro ped

> > back in Nov 2002 she was just 2 1/2 and he came up with PDD-NOS

> (PDD standing for

> > Pervasive developement DELAY, not disorder) and all of this only

> after they

> > assesed her for 45 minutes , 15 minutes with speech path, 15

> minutes with an OT

> > and 15 minutes with someone trained in cognative skills!! There

> Psych,

> > however, said he would not asses her on that she was too young

to

> be diagnosed. I

> > got fed up and took her to a child psych who specialized in

> alternative

> > treatments (not drugs, mostly vitamin supplementation) and to

> mainly direct me to

> > multisensory therapies, which is where I am at today.

> started SI therapy

> > in September and has made leeps and bounds, her motor planning is

> getting

> > better but I stil have to cue her for everything, is this normal

> in some apraxic

> > children ar could this be her age 3.8? You and your group have

> been such an

> > inspiration to me, I even recieved an IM from a mother in

> Cincinnatti, Ohio (im

> > from youngstown, Ohio) just minutes after I posted this message.

> Im sure you

> > get a lot of thank yous but i just wanted you to know that this

> one come from

> > deep in my heart:'-). Thank you again. If you could just reply

> one more

> > time to my above question I would so appreciate it. Traci