New to apraxia as well as fish oil

December 30, 2006

Hello. I am a first time poster. My daughter is twenty six months

old and was diagnosed with apraxia by her SLP. She can say the

following words: " Hi " and " bye " (Both sound like " I " ), " no " , " yeah "

(sounds like " da " ), " ut-oh " , " Wow " , " all done " (Sounds like " ah

on " ), and " Please " sounds like " eese " . That's all the words she can

say regularly. We started speech therapy 2 months ago and get 2 half

hour sessions per week through our insurance. We have not made much

progress since starting speech, but her SLP says that with apraxia

the pace of improvement can be like " watching grass grow. " After

reading these message boards, I have started her on fish oil for the

first time only 4 days ago. I have never been a believer in

alternative remedies, but so far i have been amazed. Several hours

after her first dose, she was able to say " Thank you. " (Sounds

like " than choo " ) after I asked her to say it. She has said it two

or three times since. The night after her second dose, she was able

to say " Night night. " (Sounds like " Ni Ni " ). Yesterday was her third

dose, and this morning, she said " blankie " (Sounds like " Lankie " .)

She has 3 blankies she carries with her all the time. She even tried

to count them this morning. " Un " , " OO " , " EEE. " I am amazed and

excited by all she has accomplished in just 4 days since being on

fish oil as opposed to her two months of speech therapy! I have been

giving her the fish oil from GNC. One pill one time a day. Is this

right? or should I increase to twice a day? She understands

everything I say to her and is a very affectionate child. She

attempts to communicate by pointing and will also bring me to the

object she wants. But her behavior is a problem. She screams. She

has tantrums because she can't express herself. She screams. We

can't take her to a restaurant right now. It's hard. She is so

frustrated. I will do anything it takes to help her get through

this. Thanks for reading. We have an evaluation with the Early Steps

program here in Florida on January 16th. Maybe they will be able to

get us more speech therapy sessions per week.

Melody in FloridA

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