verbal dyspraxia - fill me with your wisdom please

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ds1 2.8 asd has just started copying and trying to make sounds which he seems to have great trouble with - mu as in mummy comes out as amm. He also has trouble with copying movements. Saintlydamemrsturnip enlightened me by saying in may be verbal dyspraxia have been reading up on it and i think she is right. ds1 cant copy moving his tongue it also seems very flat iyswim compared to ds2 - you see the tip moving when ds2 makes sounds. i have spoken to the salt he sees at his sn group and she is going to look at his oral motor skills next time.
Anyway what i would really appreciate is your views on it. does your dc speak now are certain sounds very difficult? what sort of therapy did they have etc
Fill me with your wisdom pleeeeeaaaaaasssssse

My ASD DS1 (5) speaks but sounds odd - some words are better than others but overall his speech is garbled. Very gradually some words have improved over time - Helicopter started as 'Eingogga' now it's 'Ellicopter'. I believe therapy for dyspraxia can be hard to get in UK esp with ASD dx as it all gets wrapped up with the autism.

DS3 (nearly 7) was diagnosed with Verbal Dyspraxia at 3.5ish, and has had a lot of SALT input over the years. My memory is too wooly to be of much help re the technicalities, but basically he was taught just about every consonant sound individually - we would work on C/K, for example, for several weeks. Pictures and actions were associated with sounds - a dripping tap for "T", for example. When he started a school where they used Jolly Phonics the SALT switched to those picture/sound combinations.

Since he started school, he's had 20 hours a week of 1-1 support. He's now mostly intelligible and doing really well - his speech will still slip when he's tired/stressed, and there's still very little consistency - he can say "P" quite clearly at the start of the word, but will miss it out when it's in the middle - so "popular" would be "po-ular".

Hope that's useful. SALTs do work wonders, and DS3 is a happy, determined (I think because he's had to struggle so much with his speech), confident little boy. Good luck with it all.

sounds like it is going to be alot of hard work. sorry should of asked how old you dc were when they started talking. hopefully now he is a bit more co-operative the salt will see this problem rather than the asd. we are working on mm at the moment as he seems to co-operate with that as i try to get him to say mummy to get things.