Re: Pediatric Nurse Practitioners learn about speech delays, apraxia

[Guest guest]

What great news Kris! The Late Talker book and the Contemporary

Pediatrics article are a start to more and more awareness in the

pediatric medical community about apraxia. Typically pediatric

medical professionals are the first professionals that our children

see from the youngest age -who better to be able to spot warning

signs?!

What type of questions are they? Do they explain the differences

between autism and apraxia or they don't get into that? What were

the questions you suggested? You share so much wisdom here I'm sure

they are incredible!

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[Guest guest]

That is really cool news that apraxia is getting more awareness!!

That must have been an exciting moment to see the article and

questions you asked!!

Hope you stick around, I always enjoy your posts!

Tina

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> I had a funny little moment yesterday. I am a pediatric nurse

> practitioner and I was working on my recertification. This year I

am

> working on a self assessment exercise. For this thing you read

an

> article, answer a few questions. Repeat for a total of 40 or 50

> articles and 110 to 200 questions (depending on which assessment

you

> are working on) and you get the idea.

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> Well, I was cruising along yesterday when I saw that one of the

> articles was the one written by Marilyn Agin (and published in

> Contemporary Pediatrics) about speech delays, apraxia, etc. I was

> thrilled to see that hundreds of PNP's will be reading this

article

> in the coming months. (This is exactly the kind of awareness

that

> we need to have happen in the general pediatrics population.) Then

I

> looked at the question and it looked a little familiar.

>

> Well, when Grace was first being diagnosed I was also

involved

> (still am) with NAPNAP (National Association of Pediatric Nurse

> Associates and Practitioenrs) and they put out a call for folks to

> write example questions. The idea was that some may end up on

the

> 2008 and 2009 assessments. I sent in about 10 or 15 questions

that

> referenced back to 5 different articles, one being the article by

Dr.

> Agin. When I looked back at the info I had sent in... this was

one

> of my questions.

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> I'm so excited to know that PNP's nationwide will be reading that

> article.

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> Kris

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[Guest guest]

I was allowed to submit 5 questions per article. Of the bazillions

of articles and questions submitted, they only pick a few. The

questions I submitted from the article were in regards to apraxia and

stressing the importance of not doing the " wait and see " thing. The

question they chose was about that. A 20 month old child has only 2

words and grunts for requests, what should be done. The focus of the

question is to see if the PNP understands that it is imperative to

have the child evaluated and to see if he/she understands the proper

sequence of events (i.e. do you refer to e.i. first or straight to a

neurologist).

The behavioral objectives for the article and the questions are

PNP recognizes that developmental milestones are not being met

PNP prescribes appropriate treatment plan for child (i.e. makes

referral to appropriate agency, doesn't " wait and see " )

PNP demonstrates understanding of community based services for

children (i.e. the EI program) and how to go about obtaining those

services.

The entire article is provided in the self assessment exercise and to

find the correct answer, they have to read the whole thing. So I'm

just slap happy that a whole bunch of PNP's are reading about apraxia

over the next months.

Kris

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On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:23 PM, kiddietalk wrote:

> What great news Kris! The Late Talker book and the Contemporary

> Pediatrics article are a start to more and more awareness in the

> pediatric medical community about apraxia. Typically pediatric

> medical professionals are the first professionals that our children

> see from the youngest age -who better to be able to spot warning

> signs?!

>

> What type of questions are they? Do they explain the differences

> between autism and apraxia or they don't get into that? What were

> the questions you suggested? You share so much wisdom here I'm sure

> they are incredible!

>

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[Guest guest]

Kris -excellent!!! I can't even imagine how cool that will be for

those parents in the future with all these aware PNPs that will be

out there to help with early or should we say earlier! detection.

You're right -it's slap happy news!!

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