Speech dyspraxia/apraxia and phonological speech disorders

[LadyMargolotta]

Copied and pasted from another topic; another poster recommended I post here

My four year old ds already has speech therapy, and they have finally said that he has speech dyspraxia and a phonological speech disorder. Apparently it is quite unusual to have the two?

His understanding and vocabularly are normal.

He is awaiting further tests for motor skills. I am assuming that he probably has generalised dyspraxia as well as speech dyspraxia.

If your child has/had similar problems, how did they progress? What help did they receive in school?

And how did they get on emotionally with their problems? DS is becoming more and more clingy, refusing to sleep alone, and not wanting to go to school. I think it's because he realizes more and more that the other children and teachers don't understand him

Thanks!

how old is your DS?

DS has fine motor dyspraxia and sensory processing disorder (sensory seeking) but this has affected his speech (organs of articulation are fine motor). He is year 3, coming up 8, he is now coming on leaps and bounds.
Key for him was not speech therapy, but OT, with a specialist sensory person, this has helped him order and organise himself and his thoughts.

He should maybe go back and do some speech therapy at some stage, as a couple of his sounds are stll not great. "F" comes out like "th"
but nothing too major.

He is four. Interesting that organs of articulation are fine motor, because as far as I can see, he has a fine motor problem.

His teacher seems to think he is behind in all motor skills, but I think his gross motor skills are ok - he can hop, jump, roly poly, and his swimming is good for his age (although he can't put his head under water - but then he is only four).

He can't hold a pencil very well, and rarely scribbles. He doesn't know which hand he should use - we think he may be left handed but it's not obvious.

He needs help getting dressed, undressed and prefers to use his hands for eating.

He will be assessed fairly soon for motor skills.

DS gross core gross motor is above average, where he falls down is when he has to sequence a series of things - the planning, which goes with alot of sport....putting a series of things together, this may be what the teacher is seeing.
so dribbling a ball, stop it, kick it into goal......he finds hard, but is improving

That's interesting mrslaughan. So far ds isn't showing much interest in football or any other ball games.