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As most of you know Colter has been seeing a speech pathologist. There's nothing better than the doctor's telling you they think something could be wrong with your child. The term they used was apraxia. Of course, since he's only 22 months they cannot tell us for sure but have told us that if it is apraxia we're getting help at an opportune time. We've been trying to keep it all in stride. I haven't researched apraxia for the simple reason being that I don't want to know. It's too early to tell if that's what it is so I just want to let things progress or not progress as they may and listen to the pathologist.
It's tough for a little guy his age. He has so many things he wants to say but just can't seem to get the words out. Of course this causes frustration on his and our part so to help him out he uses certain signs so he can communicate his needs. "Eat" and "more" are used on a daily basis. We've moved on from just signing to making the letter sounds along with the sign. Example, "mmmm" and the sign for "more." He picks up the signs and the sounds like nothing so that's promising.
Words he's picked up this week:
Moo
Ba
Walk (when prompted to add the sounds "whaaaa" with "ck)
Bue (for blue)
and something that sounded like "Lola" (from the cartoon "Charlie and Lola")
Behold the lost TIME.com Technologizer columns
1 month ago
1 comment:
Hi there,
I was just doing a search on Verbal Apraxia and came across this post. My son, Connor, 3 1/2, has Verbal Apraxia. I was pretty sure before Connor was 2 years old that he had Apraxia but we didn't get an official diagnosis till after he was 3. We'd been dealing with our local 'preschool speech & language' program since he was 18 months old but he didn't start private therapy until December 2005, just after his 3rd birthday. It's made a world of difference so far...
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