Hi everyone,
Asking the community here if anyone has similar experience with their child and turned out to be apraxia? Booked in for private SALT in a few weeks, NHS assessment is over a year wait.
Our 27 month old boy is a bright and bubbly boy who is hitting all his milestone except speech. Cognitively, physically, emotionally he is thriving, and there have been no concerns on those things from us or nursery/health visitor.
It does seem however that he has pretty significant speech delay and issues. And what we thought might be a delay, seems way more significant. He understand everything his receptive language and memory and understanding are excellent.
Was wondering if anyone had similar experience with their children and it turned out to be apraxia?
Main issues:
-limited vocab about 30 words maybe 15 consistently but only a handful are correct
- two syllables words are tough for him he gets them out but with effort- da-da, bay-bee, pu-pu (purple) ma-ma (mama only just started saying)
-vowell heavy and drops the end consonant for most words eg ball- baw dog- daw pu-pu purple, buuu -blue yeah- yellow
- he oraly gropes with his tongue for certain letters K L R mainly and sometimes puts his hands in mouth, touches throat, purses lips or makes a chewing noise to try get letters out
-Singles words only and no sentences or spontaneous conversation, sometimes on his own does babbling conversation
-Uses a lot of exaggerated emotive sounds like wow, ohhh, ahhh, awww and emotion to communicate
-often practises in the mirror and likes to practice on his own
-Not h words doesn't even try hi hello hat
-can do his ABCs but can't do f, g ,h of x y z
-Responds to mouth modelling eg miss Rachel
Thanks to anyone that can share similar experiences