a different approach to veral apraxia

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My son was diagnosed with verbal apraxia. I am a physical therapist

and pushed early on that ther was something wrong. Luckily my

pediatrician agreed to a speech evaluaion and we have had some good

success. He has received speech for about 6 months and is 22 months

old. When I really noticed a big change is when I started doing some

physical therapy and crawlin activities with him as well as

chiropractic adjustments for spinal alignment.

When my son started to improve his " commando " crawling so it was equal

right and left, I noticed a huge jump in his attempts to talk. I know

it could be coincidence but I really believe it is all tied together.

There are some places that work on " patterning " . The problem comes in

it is thought to be non effective because it as tested in the 1970's

with down's children thinking it would improve their intelligence and

it did not. But maybe with apraxia a more motor planning problem then

it could be more effective. As far as I know there has been no

research with it done for any diagnosis rather than downs.

Cari