Intro, finally :)

March 20, 2006

Hey everyone! I have been lurking on this list for ages, and now that I

figured out to send my mail to my Gmail account, this busy list

is starting to look much easier to keep up with! ((HIGHLY reccomend

using Gmail with groups if you aren't already! The way it organizes the

messages is phenominal!)

Anyways, about us. My name is Sara, I live in Mobile, AL. I have 3 children,

ages 7 1/2, 2 1/2, and 14 months. I am a stay at home mom, my husband is a

pediatric nurse-practitioner who left the field to work for a medical

hardware/software company here.

My 2 1/2 year old son has a speech delay, which we suspect is verbal

apraxia. He has been in speech therapy through Early Intervention since

September. We have seen some improvement, though not the leaps and bounds

I'd hoped for. Through reading online I ran across the possibility of

apraxia, and some time later the ST working with him asked if I'd heard of

it and said that while she was not able to diagnose, he had a lot of the

characteristics. Funny enough the lady from the school system at his

transition meeting last week said something very similar. I have been told

the school system will be able to make a diangosis when they do his

evaluation in August. He has had a formal hearing test, which he passed with

flying colors. His receptive language is at or above age level, motor skills

are fine, shows no symptoms of autism, he just does not talk. I would

estimate his vocabulary to be around 30-35 words right now.

So thats where we are in a nutshell right now Per all the reccomendations

I have ordered The Late Talker : What to Do If Your Child Isn't

Talking

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* *and from my own curiousity, another called The Einstein Syndrome: Bright

Children Who Talk

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*** *. If anyone has read the second one, I'd love to hear what you thought

of it.

Looking foreward to getting to know everyone

Sara

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