no progress with speech therapy five year old

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:op here no speech still the same after 5 years has great receptive language though

Does your child have apraxia?

I am beginning to believe so

You need to get your child a global evaluation with a developmental pediatrician. What does your child's pediatrician say? Unbelievable that you are guessing at why your child does not talk when he is 5 yrs old.

What are you planning to do for K?

No need to criticize; OP has been working with a speech therapist and is clearly looking past it to the next step. Jeez.

If they have been working with a speech therapist for 5 yrs?!? with zero progress and no explanation as to why. The speech therapist should be fired. Would love to know what kind of speech therapist does this.

[Anonymous]

An earlier poster was correct, your child will likely benefit from an AAC/Asssitive Technology Evaluation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:op here no speech still the same after 5 years has great receptive language though

Everyone jumps on Aprixia and that is not aprixia as you need speech. That is late or no talking. I'd be concerned and be doing intensive private therapy and not just relying on the school. My child didn't start talking till 4, and is doing better at 6 but still struggles in some areas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:op here no speech still the same after 5 years has great receptive language though

Everyone jumps on Aprixia and that is not aprixia as you need speech. That is late or no talking. I'd be concerned and be doing intensive private therapy and not just relying on the school. My child didn't start talking till 4, and is doing better at 6 but still struggles in some areas.

??? As a parent of a child with apraxia, I find your comment confusing. There is a reason OPs child is not talking at 5. Late talker is not an official diagnosis. While Apraxia is difficult to diagnose with no speech, it is likely to be the cause. Using an approach specific to Apraxia might elicit enough speech to know for sure. The key is going to be intensity of therapy. He probably will need daily therapy.

[Anonymous]

Has he been evaluated for ASD?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:op here no speech still the same after 5 years has great receptive language though

Everyone jumps on Aprixia and that is not aprixia as you need speech. That is late or no talking. I'd be concerned and be doing intensive private therapy and not just relying on the school. My child didn't start talking till 4, and is doing better at 6 but still struggles in some areas.

??? As a parent of a child with apraxia, I find your comment confusing. There is a reason OPs child is not talking at 5. Late talker is not an official diagnosis. While Apraxia is difficult to diagnose with no speech, it is likely to be the cause. Using an approach specific to Apraxia might elicit enough speech to know for sure. The key is going to be intensity of therapy. He probably will need daily therapy.

Point shown. You are a parent of apraxia, so you automatically assume it is similar to your child and the therapies and needs are the same. There are many reasons why kids talk later. Your child didn't talk later (4-6 range). The therapy styles are entirely different. Yes, the child needs a few time a week therapy. PROMPT was a nightmare with my late talker. It made no sense. Most apraxia parents often base all speech needs off of their child's needs. You cannot force a child to talk and push. Some of it just comes when it is ready (even if you'd like it sooner).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:op here no speech still the same after 5 years has great receptive language though

Everyone jumps on Aprixia and that is not aprixia as you need speech. That is late or no talking. I'd be concerned and be doing intensive private therapy and not just relying on the school. My child didn't start talking till 4, and is doing better at 6 but still struggles in some areas.

??? As a parent of a child with apraxia, I find your comment confusing. There is a reason OPs child is not talking at 5. Late talker is not an official diagnosis. While Apraxia is difficult to diagnose with no speech, it is likely to be the cause. Using an approach specific to Apraxia might elicit enough speech to know for sure. The key is going to be intensity of therapy. He probably will need daily therapy.

Point shown. You are a parent of apraxia, so you automatically assume it is similar to your child and the therapies and needs are the same. There are many reasons why kids talk later. Your child didn't talk later (4-6 range). The therapy styles are entirely different. Yes, the child needs a few time a week therapy. PROMPT was a nightmare with my late talker. It made no sense. Most apraxia parents often base all speech needs off of their child's needs. You cannot force a child to talk and push. Some of it just comes when it is ready (even if you'd like it sooner).

We didn't use PROMPT. There are other effective approaches that are less intrusive. I have 3 kids with 3 very different speech diagnoses so I'm not making a suggestion with blinders on.

[Anonymous]

Any chance that your child has seizures? Our non-verbal child had hidden seizures only during sleep. We never saw any outward signs. Finally stumbled upon a doc who said he highly suspects seizures in kids with significant language development issues. Although a 1 hr eeg was clean, an overnight eeg revealed significant seizure activity. I wasted a lot of money on SLPs. They just don't seem to know how to help a completely non-verbal kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any chance that your child has seizures? Our non-verbal child had hidden seizures only during sleep. We never saw any outward signs. Finally stumbled upon a doc who said he highly suspects seizures in kids with significant language development issues. Although a 1 hr eeg was clean, an overnight eeg revealed significant seizure activity. I wasted a lot of money on SLPs. They just don't seem to know how to help a completely non-verbal kid.

Not OP but what did you do for seizures? Medication?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any chance that your child has seizures? Our non-verbal child had hidden seizures only during sleep. We never saw any outward signs. Finally stumbled upon a doc who said he highly suspects seizures in kids with significant language development issues. Although a 1 hr eeg was clean, an overnight eeg revealed significant seizure activity. I wasted a lot of money on SLPs. They just don't seem to know how to help a completely non-verbal kid.

Not OP but what did you do for seizures? Medication?

Seizure meds. Currently trialing Lamictal because it supposedly has the best record for inducing speech. It hasn't brought speech yet, but we need to go back in and do another overnight eeg to make sure the seizures are being controlled... We have no way of knowing otherwise because the seizures are happening without any obvious outward signs ( no staring, no convulsions, etc).