...because, I am going to say this and it may not be what you want to here, apraxia is HARD. A lot of kids with it, with intervention, talk normally by the time they are 5. This requires a lot of work, and it's work Nico may not be able to do at the same speed as the typical apraxia pattern. We are totally there because Gwen's apraxia is especially severe; Nico may be there for other reasons, and waiting for the apraxia to correct until the age of 8 or 10 or whenever may just mean waiting too darn long, which is why I am suggesting the augmentative communication idea.
Though to play Devil's Advocate with myself, an AC device is just one more thing for Nico to have to learn; you may have better luck instituting ASL, but that assumes that everyone he is going to want to communicate with from now until his apraxia corrects is going to be able to understand ASL.
I'm clearly not an expert and I bow to the experts, but I wonder how many experts there are out there in the field of DS/apraxia mixed...
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Date: 2010-09-23 10:47 pm (UTC)Though to play Devil's Advocate with myself, an AC device is just one more thing for Nico to have to learn; you may have better luck instituting ASL, but that assumes that everyone he is going to want to communicate with from now until his apraxia corrects is going to be able to understand ASL.
I'm clearly not an expert and I bow to the experts, but I wonder how many experts there are out there in the field of DS/apraxia mixed...