A ? for the parents of children with Apraxia of speech

January 5, 2006

I was just wandering what some of the " signs/symptoms " of apraxia are. I have

been wondering if my son's really low oral motor skills and control could be

associated with that. I was also wondering if apraxia could be why he can't move

his tongue around hardly at all. I've asked his ST about this and she says it is

a good possibility but that she couldn't and wouldn't diagnose him or say yes or

no that that was what he might have. We go on the 7th of Febuary to see the Dev

Ped and I'll be brining all of this up to her also. One last thing, does anyone

know of a good website or book that has some good oral motor excercises and some

good ways to get him to do them. He's 34 months old and we have a set of

excercises to do right now, but getting him to do them is like pulling teeth

sometimes. He wants to look at the page and the cat picture on it but that's as

far as it goes. Even his ST has trouble getting him to do them for her. Well

thanks everyone for the help and support during my

time of uncertanty.

Leighanne

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