Guest guest Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Hello I am from County NJ, and I have a son who just turned three on Feb. 10th.Our son is diagnosed with moderate/severe verbal dyspraxia. He was in early intervention and private speech therapist since 2 years 7months old, and now he is in a pre-school disabled program 5x a week from 8:30am to 11:15am. He gets speech therapy 3x a week inschool with another child for 30minutes. I do not feel that it is enough or if he should be having speech alone. The therapist at his school said they pair up the students so they learn to communicate with each other, but in my son's case he does communicate but not much makes sense and he gets frustrated when we don't understand him. He has about 5o-60 intelligible words and he uses the PEC system and sign language, he uses them when he gets really frustrated because we do not understand him. He does have a lot of tantrums and has behavior issues because people do not understand him example ( hitting, punching, excessive crying if he's frustrated) I was wondering if anyone has any proven therapies that work, info on EFA's and Names of good Developmental Pediatricians. We do have an appointment in May with Dr. Larry Laveman, If anyone has seen him please let me know. I appreciate reading all the posts about your children I pray that they will all turn out to be wonderful public speakers one day. Thanks so much, Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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