I guess I should Introduce Myself!!

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Since I've been replying to messages already, I thought I'd quickly introduce

myself! I'm new to this group! My son, , is 30 months old and currently

goes to speech therapy 1 day a week for only an hour. After reading symptoms of

verbal apraxia online, I'm almost positive my son has this. His speech

therapist had quickly mentioned that she suspected it but apparently they don't

do the diagnosis here until he is 3...not sure why?!?

He just had his 6 month evaluation and they put him at having a 28% delay in his

expressive language skills but is age-appropriate for receptive. He mainly uses

back sounds (g, k) and we are working on strenghtening his oral facial muscles.

At this point he cannot pucker his lips thus he's having difficulty producing

front sounds (m, p). He currently has a vocabulary of a little over 100 words

but over half are unintelligible and the other half are only understood within

context. He does say a few 2-3 word sentences but you can't understand those

very much either. " Again " , " I'll get it " and " I did it " all sound like " E Ga " .

We recently started giving him fish oil and I'm SOOO happy to report that

within a week, I noticed he's been adding 1-2 new words to his vocabulary

daily!!! I've actually started a list where I write down his new word(s) each

day! Though most are unintelligible, it still is a huge progress for us! Not

sure if it's a coincidence or not but it does make you wonder if the fish oil

had anything to do with it!

I'm glad I was referred to this site and looking forward to reading all the

posts!

Kim