Tanner's 2008 Talking Page update!!

February 6, 2008

Tanner got on the phone with today after school. You can't

hear him as well as you can -but this is an unplanned phone

conversation. Tanner talks about the Super Bowl -games he likes to

play -and what frustrates him most about speech issues. He's pretty

good about knowing how to talk now without 'sounding' apraxic. He

has a number of strategies. I'm sure as soon as he is a bit older

and if I ever talked to him about it he'd have a strong opinion about

the name " childhood apraxia of speech " as Tanner since 8 didn't like

the word " child " and considers himself to be a " young man " You'll

hear in the following how he presents himself -and in his photo (at

just 11 years old) he comes across a bit older than someone that is

11. He is sitting in the photo next to his older brother Dakota -but

he is just skimming my height at 5 foot 5 inches.

Tanner was in therapy from around 2 with not much change until we

started him on fish oils right before 3. Along with fish oils he was

in almost daily speech therapy (none on Sunday) from around 3 to 6 -

then he went to around 4 days a week from 6 to 7 -then from 7 to 10

he was down to 2 days a week...and now at 11 he only sees Dr. Renai

Jonas -a speech therapist in Boca that we love once in awhile.

Tanner takes daily

4 ProEFA

2 ProEPA

4 Alpha Gamma Vitamin E

Tanner drinks milk -has never been on a special diet -and back when

we used to meet in person he was pretty typical of most of the other

kids like him. Most of you know what worked for Tanner if you read

The Late Talker book since he inspired it. Please let me know what

you think of Tanner's speech here and I'll get him to answer any

questions himself. He's learning how to type without looking at the

computer now at school - so it's good practice for him and he's got

lots to share.

Well without further ado -here's the update of Tanner!

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