Need a diagnosis!!!

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Hey there. I was just wondering if there was anybody out there who

can give me a few answers- maybe your child has simmilar symptoms to

my daughter. Elianna is 20 months old, has visited at least ten

different doctors, and still no diagnosis. It doesn't help that we

are in the army, and the overall approach to things like this are

hurry up and wait. She exibits absoloutley no expressive language,

but understands everything. She was seen in a child development

clinic, and they said that she was of normal intelligence, had above

average gross motor skills, and reccomended speech therapy. The

problem? There is a 3 month wait to get in. She was evaluated at

having the receptive language skills of a 20 month old, but the

expressive language skills of an 11 month old. She babbles a few

vowel sounds, and 3 connsonants. She has abnormal plasma amino

acids, but not in a pattern that signifies any specific disorder.

She has Proximal Renal Tubular Acidosis, which is linked to

mitochondrial disorders, but after a huge battery of tests, doctors

have been unable to diagnose which one she might have. She also has

unusual flexibility that they attributed to loose ligaments. She

has also been diagnosed with failure to thrive. At 20 months old,

she is 18 pound (below the 3rd percentile) and in at the 10th

percentile for height. Her mouth seems to function properly (ie: she

can smile, stick out her tongue, lick, chew and swallow normally)

One Dr. things she has developmental apraxia of speech, another

suspects expressive language disorder> note: neither one of these

Dr's are speech pathologists. They were just reading out of a

pediatric reference. Any ideas??? I don't even know where to

begin.