, do you have a list of therapists~m~

January 8, 2006

I am less than satisfied with Amber's progress with her expressive

speech. We have been with our SLP since Amber was 18 months old (she

is now 4.5) and I am just not convinced that she is properly trained

in apraxia treatment. We started seeing a PT two months ago who has

significant training in sensory integration disorders, and I swear

that what she has me doing with Amber has provided more progress (she

has me doing lots of oral exercises, vibrating chewy, chewy tubes,

lots of gum chewing, lots of blowing (cottonballs, etc.)). These are

things that our SLP doesn't consistently work on. In our SLP's

defense, Amber can be " difficult " when she doesn't want to do

something.

I am in northeastern pennsylvania and the services around here are

just terrible. There are very few speech clinic's around and none of

them mention apraxia as their specialty (not to mention, due to

limited SLP's, the waiting list can be 6 to 12 months). Amber's

school therapist seems ok but I can't get more than two sessions a

week (I am hoping that will change once I get Dr. Agin's report).

So, I did a search on teh ASHA website for therapist located in

Luzerne County and I only found one that lists apraxia as one of her

specialties. Of course, does that mean that 5 years ago she treated

a child with apraxia or is she really trained in it. I have a call

into her (she is with a local university so I am not even sure if I

would get her or one of her students) but I haven't heard back.

Sometimes I really wish we lived in a big city because I know we

would have more options.

Do you know of any therapists in my area. It hit me the other day

that Amber will be 5 on July 8th and we are still only getting 2 or 3

word sentences and a lot of her words are approximations.

thanks for any thoughts or advice.

tina and Amber

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