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I'm a father of twin boys who are 3. I have been told by my school

district's speech therapist that both have a severe Developmental

Apraxia.

Both of my boys have been tested and found to be below the 1% for

speech. Fortunately, on the other hand their language skills are off

the charts. They use language and understand it like crazy but their

speech is unintelligible.

They have been attending the special ed program at our school. They

attend five days a week for appx. 2 1/2 hours w/ appx. 11 other

children. Twice a week they are removed from their class to have a

speech session w/ a therapist. They attend this session w/ another

child. They are also removed from the class for Occ. Therapy and

Physical Therapy due to gross/fine motor skill delays.

I'm starting to wonder if this is enough. Five days for 2 1/2 hours

is a lot for my boys. It's the amount of (or lack of) individual

attention that concerns me. My boys are described as very bright and

able to maintain their attention during class. I'm wondering if

anyone has any thoughts on if I should seek additional speech therapy

outside of the school district. I'm wondering if this will help or

even cause more problems - IE - two therapist teaching different

methods.

Thanks.