Guest guest Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Just wanted to introduce ourselves. We are and . We live in western Michigan. We just adopted our daughter, Grace, from China at 20 months old. She is now 27 months old. we knew she had a cleft lip and palate, and she had palate surgery in December. We knew it would take a while for her to begin talking because of the palate and the language switch, but it is becoming apparent that there is something else going on. She was not speaking at all in China, and is still only saying Mama and Dada, but only sporadically. Her receptive speech is coming along well and she has learned close to 50 signs. She responds to spoken English and doesn't appear to have any hearing loss. We've been going to speech therapy twice a week since January. Our therapist just began talking about apraxia, saying that she should be making more sounds by now. So now we are trying to inform ourselves as much as possible about apraxia, since we had never heard of it before. So that's why we're here. We also subscribe to the cleft palate list and the special needs adoption list from China. We look forward to hearing about everyone's experiences here in the future. and Dave dd Sophie 6 dd Lily 4 dd Grace 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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