Verbal dyspraxia

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Hi

My just turned 3 year old us severely speech delayed and has recently started weekly speech therapy. The therapist is pretty confident that he has verbal dyspraxia abs says that progress will be slow. His understanding is fantastic and he tries to talk in sentences but is impossible for even me to understand most of what he says without context. Does anyone have any experience with this and how the child later turned out? Thanks

I only have limited personal experience with DD, who was diagnosed with articulatory dyspraxia, and it was of minor significance among her sea of problems with language; however as she was always in speech and language provision, I saw what happened to many of her school friends with severe verbal dyspraxia:

1. Some in the infant/junior language with her, had their verbal dyspraxia remediated after 2 years or so of intensive speech therapy - then their speech, although a bit careful, appeared normal. By secondary school, they were in mainstream and achieving well!

1. Some, while their dyspraxia was remediated as per 1. then were found over the age of 7, to have dyslexia (and often imo residual social skills deficits) and/or motor dyspraxia, such that they might still need a specialist speech and language school at secondary, or at least a laptop for writing into adulthood. One is a very successful qualified accountant.

1. Several were so severe, even a language unit was not specialist enough, and they had to go to specialist speech and language primary schools, where there was signing, and they could use communication aids - I met several teenagers, who still used a communication aid!

I saw them ranging in age from 4, and going through school/college upto 18. The mothers of children in 1. and 2. all told me they could not understand a word their child said at 3.