Guest guest Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Our 4.5 year-old son has been diagnosed with both apraxia and ADHD. In the year and a half since he was diagnosed with aprxia, he has gone from a 20-30 word vocabulary to speaking in sentences, using verb teses, using pronouns and prepositions! We attibute this success to fish oil supplements and lots of help from SLPs, teachers, teacher's aides, OTs, and a great babysitter. Approximately eight months ago we began to be aware of serious problems with social behavior, attention, and impulsivity. At this time, we played with fish oil dosages/brands with some improvement but not enough. We have added Focalin and again are seeing improvement but still feel there is lots of room for more improvement in intelligibleness and behavior. Any suggestions on which of the following options to try next? 1. Fish oil experimentation. We have had different success with different brands/doses of fish oil so we could experiment in this area more. 2. Carn-aware. 3. Diet. Which diet? 4. Chelation therapy. 5. Allergy testing. We hesitate to change more than one thing at once because if we see a change we won't know what caused the change. Therefore, we could use help in prioritizing our options. If you are responding based on your experience with your child, please include your child's diagnosis. Thanks for any help anyone can give us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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