Re: Re: Connection between verbal apraxia and torticollis flat head???

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My daughter is 17 months and her flat spot is on the back left side of her head. She has dysphagia (swallowing, chewing issues as well). And she has been evaluated already for apraxia. She gets evaluated again in two weeks, to see how she's progressed, since it's a bit too early. She scored incredibly high on receptive language, but they noted her limited repertoire of sounds (mainly g, d, b sounds with short vowel sounds a, u only). Her inability to imitate an approximation of a word or sound when prompted, has led the speech pathologist to suspect apraxia. She actually has improved a lot, but we haven't reached a definitive answer regarding the apraxia.. developmentally we need to wait a few more months.

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Colleen

Re: Connection between verbal apraxia and torticollis flat head???

Hi there. My son also has a flat spot on the back right side of his head and at 19 months old he's well ahead in speaking. However he's also been wearing a helmet since 6 months, so that may have helped. He does have issues chewing/swallowing, so perhaps there is a connection to the right side being flat that affected him differently. Since most of the moms on this board have younger babies, you might try posting your question on the older plagio site to see if any of the moms with older plagio babies had a similar issue. Good luck!OlderPlag/Sheila, mom to , 19 months, DOCband>> I've been doing some thinking and am just wondering if anyone else > has my same thought or has experienced the same things.> > Early in our son's life, he was found to have flat head on the back, > right side. No helmet therapy was required so we just did > repositioning techniques. This seemed to help but did not fully "re-> form" his head. Now at the age of 23 months, you can still feel the > flat spot but it is not visibile because of his hair covering it.> > So with flat head behind us and supposedly solved, we thought all was > well. At 18 months, our pediatrician suggested we get early > intervention for a possible speech delay. We jumped through all the > hoops and now he's in speech therapy once a week. After 6 weeks with > very minimal improvement, our speech therapist thinks he has verbal > apraxia instead of a speech delay. His receptive language is awesome > and well above other children his age. However, his expressive > language is not catching up quickly enough with the receptive. After > reading about apraxia all day long, I finally decided that he > definitely does shows signs of verbal apraxia.> > Then I started doing some brain research on which parts of the brain > control speaking. I found an interesting diagram that shows the > bottom right part of the brain controlling areas of speech and > tongue/jaw movement. This made me come to the question of, "Is it > possible that the pressure on the bottom right part of his brain > hindered the proper growth in those areas of the brain - which in > turn caused the verbal apraxia?"> > I'm just wondering if any of you out there have a toddler with verbal > apraxia that also had flat head/torticollis problems as an infant. > If so, I would love to hear what you have to say about this!>

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Hi, If you wish that you would have banded, I think Cranial Technologies does band till 2 years. You may want to check with them. Maybe that would help the verbal apraxia if there is a connection. Good luck. lisa http://www.cranialtech.com/iluvk5 <skerns@...> wrote: Thank you so much for leading me to the Older Plag. group. I just joined and hopefully can get some good feedback on my

original post. I really wish we would have gone with the helmet. It was never given as an option for us because the pediatrician thought his head was getting better even though it never really looked that much better. It makes me wonder if that would have helped and prevented the speech disorder. There really needs to be more research done on the correlation. Anyway, thanks again.> >> > I've been doing some thinking and am just wondering if anyone else > > has my same thought or has experienced the same things.> > > > Early in our son's life, he was found to have flat head on the > back, > > right side. No helmet therapy was required so we just did > > repositioning techniques. This seemed to help but did not >

fully "re-> > form" his head. Now at the age of 23 months, you can still feel > the > > flat spot but it is not visibile because of his hair covering it.> > > > So with flat head behind us and supposedly solved, we thought all > was > > well. At 18 months, our pediatrician suggested we get early > > intervention for a possible speech delay. We jumped through all > the > > hoops and now he's in speech therapy once a week. After 6 weeks > with > > very minimal improvement, our speech therapist thinks he has > verbal > > apraxia instead of a speech delay. His receptive language is > awesome > > and well above other children his age. However, his expressive > > language is not catching up quickly enough with the receptive. > After > > reading about apraxia all day long, I finally decided that he > >

definitely does shows signs of verbal apraxia.> > > > Then I started doing some brain research on which parts of the > brain > > control speaking. I found an interesting diagram that shows the > > bottom right part of the brain controlling areas of speech and > > tongue/jaw movement. This made me come to the question of, "Is it > > possible that the pressure on the bottom right part of his brain > > hindered the proper growth in those areas of the brain - which in > > turn caused the verbal apraxia?"> > > > I'm just wondering if any of you out there have a toddler with > verbal > > apraxia that also had flat head/torticollis problems as an > infant. > > If so, I would love to hear what you have to say about this!> >>

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