Re: Apraxia/Sensory&Auditory Issues, Who can relate?

[Guest guest]

My ds's SLP is having us exercize his tongue using a dum-dum sucker.

We start by having him imitate us by taking the sucker in and out of his

mouth repeatedly. Then have him try to imitate licking it. Eventually we

are supposed to hold the sucker to the corner of his mouth and have

him 'seek' the sucker with his tongue. I guess that is an automatic

reaction and is possible even with apraxics also.

Another thing we are trying is to introduce a pacifier to him. He never

used one as a baby but seems to enjoy it now. We wet it with water first

and for a while he alternates sucking and chewing on it.

--Sange

mom to Randy 2.4yo, mild to moderate hearing impaired

and severe speech delay

[Guest guest]

Just a commentary--not a criticism---

I'm surprised that a pacifier was recommended, but I guess in the

effort of getting your son to learn to more effectively use the

sucking motions of his mouth, it makes sense.

The reason I'm surprised is that we were advised just the opposite.

My son Drew was a heavy " pluggy " (our word for pacifier) user. In

the last couple of months, we've weaned him enough that he knows that

he can only have his pluggy in bed, usually at bedtime. Sometime

he'll go up to his room to have a " fix " , but a few moments of the

pluggy, and he's off and running, throwing it back in his bed as he

leaves. I was strongly encouraged to do this because we wanted him

to learn to attempt to articulate sounds and makes more sounds, and

the pluggy was impeding that process.

Very interesting....

le

[Guest guest]

's mouth and tongue were very weak. She would practice licking

peanut butter (or marshmellow cream) off of tongue depressors. She

would immitate tongue movements like stick her tongue straight out,

stick it to the left, right, middle. She would like things off of

her mouth.

Both the SLP and the OT helped with this. I think the main reason

why didn't talk until later was because her mouth muscles were

so weak, and her first year of speech therapy no one did any oral

therapy.

Good luck!

Suzi

--- In , " traciclem " <sjtlc@a...>

wrote:

> Hi

>

> havent posted in a couple of weeks, and found out that my dd not

only

> has Apraxia of speech but also has Aphasia/dysphasia/dysarthria

and

> an auditory dysfunction. on top of all this she has a mild case of

> sensory intergration dysfunction(DSI). Her SLP told me that along

> with Apraxia often Aphasia/dysphasia and dysarthria follow. Can

> anyone tell me if they have a child with most or all of these same

> problems and what they are doing for it. I read in a post dated

the

> 1st or 2nd of January from

[Guest guest]

My SLP said that she wished that my daughters would have used a

pacifier because it would have helped to strenthen their oral

muscles. They didn't, and she didn't recommend that to them at 3

years old.

> Just a commentary--not a criticism---

>

> I'm surprised that a pacifier was recommended, but I guess in the

> effort of getting your son to learn to more effectively use the

> sucking motions of his mouth, it makes sense.

>

> The reason I'm surprised is that we were advised just the

opposite.

> My son Drew was a heavy " pluggy " (our word for pacifier) user. In

> the last couple of months, we've weaned him enough that he knows

that

> he can only have his pluggy in bed, usually at bedtime. Sometime

> he'll go up to his room to have a " fix " , but a few moments of the

> pluggy, and he's off and running, throwing it back in his bed as

he

> leaves. I was strongly encouraged to do this because we wanted

him

> to learn to attempt to articulate sounds and makes more sounds,

and

> the pluggy was impeding that process.

>

> Very interesting....

>

> le