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Miznan78
LIF Infant
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Childhood apraxia
Anyone have any experience with childhood apraxia? My daughter was just evaluated for EI speech and bc of her limited verbal output the speech therapist thinks she could be a candidate for apraxia. I have a speech therapist who works with my daughter privately and she disagrees.
I was just wondering if anyone has any experience with apraxia and what symptoms your child typically had.
TIA
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Posted 12/5/14 4:56 PM  |
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tran92
LIF Adolescent
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Childhood apraxia
my dd had a diagnosis of oral motor apraxia. keep in mind, thats completely dfferent from apraxia. as my old ST explained, apraxia means she has trouble talking. its kind of a catch or for a speech delay. oral motor apraxia means that child has difficulty controlling the muscles that are needed to form the speech. they can be taught the motions, but it takes more effort for them to learn what they need to do since they need to be more conscious of how they move their mouth. we had the oral motor designation from a neurologist mainly to guarantee her speech services. it allowed us to get speech 3x per week, which she needed. without the formal diagnosis, she might have been lucky to get 2x. but her articulation was in the 2% range at the time.
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| Posted 12/19/14 8:38 PM |
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sapphire
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Re: Childhood apraxia
Feel free to FM me, my daughter deals with global apraxia (dyspraxia). Apraxia of speech is also known as childhood apraxia of speech, and CASANA is a great organizationhttp://www.apraxia-kids.org/ . This is considered "verbal apraxia"
Donna Lederman is very knowledgeable, and I highly recommend her for an evaluation and her practice for PROMPT (although it can get quite expensive if you don't have great out of network insurance. Not only do they know how implement the technique, the analysis of the errors has a ton to do with how effective the therapy can get.
If your child is very young Kaufman's method can help. (nancy kaufman)
Apraxia (oral and verbal) both have to do with the oral motor system, finding SLPs who have a strong knowledge base on this disorder is rare. Oral apraxia has to do with things like ability to blow, or drink from a cup, chewing etc
Message edited 12/20/2014 10:57:34 AM.
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Snoopy36
LIF Adolescent
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Caille
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Childhood apraxia
you h ave PM!!!
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| Posted 12/22/14 12:59 PM |
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Mmm777
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Childhood apraxia
On a related note how does one get a private eval to see if he would benefit from PROMPT?
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| Posted 12/23/14 7:37 PM |
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Miznan78
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Re: Childhood apraxia
Thank you for the info. I have heard of Donna Lederman through doing some research. I didn't know of anyone who has used her so it's good to have some feedback. It's something I will definitely look into and consider even just for the eval. I had previously explored speech through insurance, but since my daughter was just 18 mos. at the time I didn't feel the office setting was the most appropriate and scheduling didn't work out. My daughter doesn't have any oral motor issues/concerns so I believe the therapist was concerned about verbal apraxia.
Thanks for the all the info and feedback!
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Porrruss
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Re: Childhood apraxia
Posted by tran92
my dd had a diagnosis of oral motor apraxia. keep in mind, thats completely dfferent from apraxia. as my old ST explained, apraxia means she has trouble talking. its kind of a catch or for a speech delay. oral motor apraxia means that child has difficulty controlling the muscles that are needed to form the speech. they can be taught the motions, but it takes more effort for them to learn what they need to do since they need to be more conscious of how they move their mouth. we had the oral motor designation from a neurologist mainly to guarantee her speech services. it allowed us to get speech 3x per week, which she needed. without the formal diagnosis, she might have been lucky to get 2x. but her articulation was in the 2% range at the time.
Apraxia is absolutely not a catch--all for speech delay. It's a very specific motor planning disorder and can involve any number of systems (oral, verbal, limb, as well as ideational use of items).
To the OP, please go to the apraxia kids site for the best information regarding assessment and treatment.
The professional MOST qualified to diagnose Childhood Apraxia of Speech is a speech-language pathologist. The SLP has the more complete background regarding motor, speech sound, and language development of children. All of which are impacted by motor speech in a variety of ways.
CASANA Apraxia-kids
Sorry- it just chaps me the number of times I have had children come to me who are dysarthric or have a severe phonology disorder and have a diagnosis of CAS simply because they had limited verbal output. It's a very hard disorder to tease out in young children, and only when the person diagnosing has a strong background in the speech and language system.
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Miznan78
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Re: Childhood apraxia
Posted by Porrruss
Apraxia is absolutely not a catch--all for speech delay. It's a very specific motor planning disorder and can involve any number of systems (oral, verbal, limb, as well as ideational use of items).
To the OP, please go to the apraxia kids site for the best information regarding assessment and treatment.
The professional MOST qualified to diagnose Childhood Apraxia of Speech is a speech-language pathologist. The SLP has the more complete background regarding motor, speech sound, and language development of children. All of which are impacted by motor speech in a variety of ways.
CASANA Apraxia-kids
Sorry- it just chaps me the number of times I have had children come to me who are dysarthric or have a severe phonology disorder and have a diagnosis of CAS simply because they had limited verbal output. It's a very hard disorder to tease out in young children, and only when the person diagnosing has a strong background in the speech and language system.
The speech therapist that is working privately with my daughter since July basically said the same thing that you are saying to me. She was highly upset that a speech therapist (EI evaluator) would suggest apraxia after only spending an hour with my daughter and basing that diagnosis solely on the fact there's limited verbal output and lack of imitation (she imitates when she wants to). My daughter's expressive language is significantly delayed, but she doesn't feel that apraxia is the cause of it and stated what you have, that it's over diagnosed and she's too young to even formally diagnose properly.
Over the last month I've observed my daughter to be making some more consonant and vowel sounds so I'm hoping she continues to make steady progress, but I'm also trying to be proactive and get her whatever help she may need.
Thank you everyone for your feedback!
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