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Speech apraxia (how is that different from dyspraxia?) was a suspicion of her SLP at age 24 months, when my daughter was having problems making many sounds and her speech was seriously lagging.  She had been a very quiet baby, and didn't babble much.  In addition to her sensorineural hearing loss, she gets chronic ear infections (on her 3rd set of tubes now) so has had fluid issues too.

Well, long story short, when she was having such difficulty with speaking at age 24 months, I took her to a new audiologist who determined that her hearing aids had never been programmed correctly, and she was under-amplified 10-15 dB at low frequencies for her 1st two years.  (Yes, I was livid).  Within 2 weeks of correct amplification, she started saying sounds she had never been able to make before. That was 11 months ago and her progress since then has been remarkable.

I am now hopeful that with capable speech therapy and a language-rich environment, she will do extremely well. All her language testing has been done by her speech therapist (who is excellent) through the early intervention program. I am very open to additional testing. I agree that she may have motor planning issues stemming from her under-amplification and ear infections.
 
Had a talk with an admissions person at The River School today and it sounds hopeful that they will have a spot for both of my daughters. I'm over the moon excited and hopeful that it works out financially. [/quote]

OP, I think apraxia is another name for dyspraxia but apraxia tends to be used more when there is no or very little speech yet and dyspraxia tends to be used when speech has developed but still has significant atypical abnormalities/disorder.

IMO, the early hearing problems had a significant impact on my DS's academic language skills - reading (including decoding and fluency), spelling, and organization of expression (although the latter is probably exacerbated by ADD/executive dysfunction.  But he did not have the right early intervention. You will have to watch this carefully as she moves up from grade to grade.  Getting independent evals periodically has been critical to our knowing in detail what's going on.

River School would be a good fit.  We liked Dr. Julie Verhoff there as our audiologist (even though we didn't go to school at River), plus she took our BC/BS insurance!  Georgetown University also has excellent audiology clinic and good ENTs (greg milmoe and earl harvey) which are close to the Palisade neighborhood.

Good luck![/quote]

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