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[quote=Anonymous]hi everyone. My DS is 3 In 2 months. A month before two we had county eval with infants and toddlers and he was diagnosed with expressive language disorder and all other testing in normal range. We started in home therapy with county an hour a week. Four months in and Progress was really slow so county suggested supplementing with private which we did. Six month in to county and 3 month into private DS stRated back at daycare full time after being home with bilingual nanny for a year. County therapist says she thinks he  has apraxia and is one of her harder cases and recommends 2.5 hour language class twice a week at 3 and to transition to IEP. I ask private therapist she agrees moderate apraxia that was severe But after a language boom in October he moved to moderate. I research and question the diagnosis as do some pediatrician family Members and friends.

I find out about Mary Camarata and she comes and does eval after his biggest boom in jan where he can almost parrot anything now. She says 100 percent not apraxia, goes to his daycare and says he is thriving and highLy intelligent from her testing etc. He has phonological disorder, keep him in his great private daycare where he is thriving, keep doing private once a week and work with him at home. Close county case no IEP it will be too much stress and schedule disruption and not worth it. Let him be a kid and he will catch up In about two years and just need fine tuning when entering kinder. Can't tell you how how wonderful this all went.

His county and private say she is seeing DS after great progress which is why she says no apraxia and just artic is left. County therapist still thinks at least get IEP since he currenTry qualifies and do the 45 minute class at local school. DH wants to follow Mary and close the case. Thoughts? Any similar experiences? I need to decide this week whether to Proceed with IEP process or not but I already said no to hour bus ride each way for 2.5 hour language class. Thanks for any advice or thoughts!

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