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[quote=Anonymous]I have an 8 year old who had an apraxia diagnosis.  He received that diagnosis at about 27 months of age.   We live in MoCo, so he qualified for a weekly home visit from a county speech therapist, and then he did private speech therapy (which we have always paid out of pocket for) twice a week.

He started a part time "typical" pre-school program at the age of two.  At the age of 3 he started MoCo's part time expressive speech pre-school program and did both of these program's until he started Kindie.  When he entered the county's pre-school program, we dropped the private speech therapy to once a week.  We continued once a week private speech therapy until he entered kindie as well.  He continued with once a week pull out speech services with the ES speech pathologist through the 1st grade.  At the end of his 1st grade year, the school dropped his IEP, and we did not fight it.  He never had academic issues, and hated being pulled out for the speech therapy.

His speech is not perfect, but he is mostly understandable-- there are still times that I have difficulty understanding a word he is saying.  I don't think he'll ever have a career in radio.  My husband and I have discussed sending him back to private speech therapy, but he is very resistant.  People who don't know him do not notice any speech issue-- and it has never impacted his ability to learn, make friends or his behavior (which was why the IEP was dropped).

He has no other neurological or developmental issues.  He has two older siblings that are completely neurotypical and never had speech issues (they are girls).  I did do the fish oil for a short period of time, but do not feel it really helped.  Our private speech pathologist said that she felt it really made no difference, but did not discourage it (it isn't going to hurt anything).

My thoughts on this whole process.  Probably the most useful program for him was the expressive speech preschool program.  His speech and vocabulary improved, and most importantly his confidence.

I have no idea if the thousands we have spent on private speech therapy helped. I do think a lot of it could be done at home, if you stick with a plan and are dedicated.

I would try and find a nanny that can drive, so you at least have private speech therapy as an option.  It will also give you more flexibility with pre-school programs.  I was a sahm when my son was doing all these therapies.
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