We do practice ASL with Nico but we also were already evaluated once for an AAC device.
The issue with DS/apraxia is one of expectations. From what I've been reading the diagnosis of apraxia in our kids is a relatively new phenomenon because people tended to assume the delay was cognitive not motor. No one expected children with DS to speak well so no one pushed it when they didn't. We're lucky in this, as with so many things, because of progress in the field of DS research.
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Date: 2010-09-24 02:48 am (UTC)The issue with DS/apraxia is one of expectations. From what I've been reading the diagnosis of apraxia in our kids is a relatively new phenomenon because people tended to assume the delay was cognitive not motor. No one expected children with DS to speak well so no one pushed it when they didn't. We're lucky in this, as with so many things, because of progress in the field of DS research.