apraxia of speech--your experiences

[Anonymous]

PPs: Could you please recommend your PROMPT certified SLP? We need someone with lots of experience treating apraxia/dyspraxia and working with toddlers/preschoolers. TIA!

[Anonymous]

11:56 here. We used Children's Speech and Language Services (Arlington/Springfield) http://cslstherapy.com/ . To the PP asking about the preschool using a different approach than the SLP. We've never had an issue. 9:49 is correct that it's just one tool. Using it doesn't (and shouldn't) lead to the exclusion of other approaches/tools.

[Anonymous]

Prompt Institute provides lists of people who have completed the various levels of their training. http://promptinstitute.com/index.php?page=find-a-prompt-slp

CASANA also has a list of people who have gone through their training program here http://www.apraxia-kids.org/about-casana/casana-recognized-clinicians/

[Anonymous]

Call Stacy Fleiscman. 301-279-7907. She made a huge difference for DS. He was completely unintelligible at age 3 and at age 7 his apraxia is resolved. We have seen many SLPs over the years and she is absolutely the best one! She specializes in apraxia but doesn't treat with PROMPT and that worried me at first. But she knows apraxia and her approach using touch cues was very effective. She made speech fun and my son really benefited from her warm and engaging approach. Love her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call Stacy Fleiscman. 301-279-7907. She made a huge difference for DS. He was completely unintelligible at age 3 and at age 7 his apraxia is resolved. We have seen many SLPs over the years and she is absolutely the best one! She specializes in apraxia but doesn't treat with PROMPT and that worried me at first. But she knows apraxia and her approach using touch cues was very effective. She made speech fun and my son really benefited from her warm and engaging approach. Love her!

Correction to above. Her last name is Fleischman.

Should also add she will come to you which is super convenient!

[Anonymous]

DD is now 13. SHe was dx with apraxia and low tone when she was a baby. She didn't roll over until after her 1st birthday and walked at 15 months. I can't remember the details (kids tend to suck the memory right our of ya) but she had very few words (maybe 4) at 2 years. She tested significantly below age level on expressive speech but very high on receptive speech.

She worked with a private SP then added one at the elementary school for 1/2 hour 1x a week as she qualified for special ed services at our elementary school at three years old and until she entered K she no longer qualified as her speech improved to within normal limits.

Now at 13, she is still a very quiet girl - an observer - loves to read. When we did a psych eval for possible ADHD _ Inattentiveness at the end of 5th grade, she tested at the end of 12th grade for reading. Her processing speed was still low, though.

Because of her slow processing speed, she misses some of the social parts of school as she is always behind. Luckily, a lot of social interactions also happen online and at a slower pace - so all is good!

I worried about her for years. I still worry as life is so fast but she has been able to manage.

[Anonymous]

Quick poll: how many of you had your child start Kindergarten on time (at age 5) or did you give them an extra year of preschool? My DS (born late August) has apraxia of speech. He will be turning 5 next fall, so we are trying to decide whether to give him an extra year of preschool or start of time. TIA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quick poll: how many of you had your child start Kindergarten on time (at age 5) or did you give them an extra year of preschool? My DS (born late August) has apraxia of speech. He will be turning 5 next fall, so we are trying to decide whether to give him an extra year of preschool or start of time. TIA!

We started on time. He's now 15 and I wish he would have started later, but only because he is physically much smaller than his peer. Academically and socially it's been fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quick poll: how many of you had your child start Kindergarten on time (at age 5) or did you give them an extra year of preschool? My DS (born late August) has apraxia of speech. He will be turning 5 next fall, so we are trying to decide whether to give him an extra year of preschool or start of time. TIA!

My DS (now in 5th grade) started on time because he had an IEP that carried over from the special ed preschool. We were told by our advocate that she couldn't help us delay his entry into K AND keep him instead in the special ed preschool. The IEP was developed to meet his needs. She was correct that FCPS wouldn't do it in our DS's case. However, in hindsight, I wish we'd held him back a year, not necessarily because of his apraxia but because he was later diagnosed with ADHD. DS has been hit with a double whammy and I believe he would have benefited from being held back from K. His current situation isn't bad but he is still delayed and likely to be until his late teens (at least).