Guest guest Posted October 7, 2003 Report Share Posted October 7, 2003 My three year old son is verbal aproxic and he screams a lot! He is just now becoming verbal with very limited language. Try sign language with him as an alternative to speaking or picture exchange system. My son has done well with both although he still will tantrum if he is not understood. Kim mom to Tommy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 7, 2003 Report Share Posted October 7, 2003 Hi everybody. My son almost surely (no dx yet) has apraxia - verbal for sure, oral mildly at least, and mild global. He just turned two years old and has not said a single true word. He can make some sounds that have meaning -- " uhnumnum " for food, " uuuuuuuuhhhhhhh " in a growly voice for things like drills, cars, tractors, and " uh uh uh " for " uht oh " when something spills or breaks. Mostly he can do these sounds spontaneously and isn't really able to do them at will if we are paying attention to him or asking him to do them. What he does do a lot is scream. Sometimes it's a sweet high scream, as much as a scream can be sweet, when he's calling us. But most of the time it's a gurgly, growly, extremely loud scream. About half the time it's because he's trying to explain something to us and he's frustrated, and the other half is a standard two year old tantrum. It is very very loud and frequent. I go to bed each night with my ears hurting as if I've been at a concert all day. We try to keep his frustration to a minimum, and when he's having an actual tantrum I treat it like I would for any other child - I tell him " I can see you are very mad right now, I will try to help you when you calm down " or whatever, and then I just ignore it. But for the screaming that is meant to be communicative, I'm not sure what we should do. My parents want to tell him " don't scream, you hurt my ears, try to be quieter " , that sort of thing. But I'm not sure if he has much, if any, control over it, especially when he's told or when he's trying to do it one way or the other - just like when he's trying hard to say something, he is just not able to. But my parents seem to think that even though he can't do enough motor planning to speak, he can do enough motor planning to modulate his volume. Is that true? What do you think? Did your pre-verbal apraxia kids scream a lot? Thanks cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 8, 2003 Report Share Posted October 8, 2003 My son has verbal and oral apraxia. Before starting him on flex oil and now Pro EFA he would scream, bite, scratch and etc. His neurolgist put him on clonodine which helped but he kept waking up in the middle of the night and acted drugged up all the time. After a week I took him off of that and started the flex oil the results were fantastic. My son does not scream or bite or scratch or any or that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 8, 2003 Report Share Posted October 8, 2003 What is flex oil? Is it the same thing as Flax Seed Oil? Where do you get it and how much do you give him? How much does he weigh? How much Pro-EFA do you give him? Thanks, KIM RE: [ ] apraxia and screaming > My son has verbal and oral apraxia. Before starting him on flex oil and now > Pro EFA he would scream, bite, scratch and etc. His neurolgist put him on > clonodine which helped but he kept waking up in the middle of the night and > acted drugged up all the time. After a week I took him off of that and > started the flex oil the results were fantastic. My son does not scream or > bite or scratch or any or that. > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 8, 2003 Report Share Posted October 8, 2003 Flex oil is the same as Flax Seed Oil and you can get it at any Healthfood store. I gave my son 1 tsp a day which I just put in his milk bottle in the am but I use the same bottle all day so that I can make sure that he drinks all of the oil. My son weighs approx. 33 pds. You will definitly see the difference in your child. I started my son on Pro EFA yesterday and stopped the Flax seed. I think on the Pro EFA you can give them 1 or 2 capsules; I use two. The Pro EFA make my son cranky so I may start the flax seed with the Pro EFA. Re: [ ] apraxia and screaming What is flex oil? Is it the same thing as Flax Seed Oil? Where do you get it and how much do you give him? How much does he weigh? How much Pro-EFA do you give him? Thanks, KIM RE: [ ] apraxia and screaming > My son has verbal and oral apraxia. Before starting him on flex oil and now > Pro EFA he would scream, bite, scratch and etc. His neurolgist put him on > clonodine which helped but he kept waking up in the middle of the night and > acted drugged up all the time. After a week I took him off of that and > started the flex oil the results were fantastic. My son does not scream or > bite or scratch or any or that. > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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