[luckystarmom]

My daughter has apraxia. Are you on any of the apraxia list servers or yahoo groups???

You're the first freeper that knows about apraxia.

How old is your son? My daughter is 7 1/2.

[blackdog]

My son is almost four. We had thought that he was just going to be a late talker. Upon testing him, he's got all the traits. Weak and slow lateral tounge strength & movement, falls back on tonal wale song type expressions using mostly vowels. Single consonants can be repeated if cued with an example, but creating a word with them is limited.

Funny though, he's never had any difficulty communicating his rether complex needs and exhibits no frustration when he's not being understood. He is very persistant and patient with us. Almost like we are the ones not processing right.

I think that my mom's passing from Lou Gherig's Disease(ALS) which was the type that took her speech and swallowing very quickly prepared me for non-verbal communication. Funny the way all things have an ultimate purpose. The symptoms with Apraxia of speech follow the ALS symptoms in the middle stages of the disease, of course the Apraxia of speech outlook is a whole lot brighter.........

Good luck with your little girl. My son's catalog of words without signing are Uh-oh, Oh-well, Yeah, Pop, Oh(means no), Bye,...........and that's about it. What inventory of words does your daughter have on her go-to list?