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Thank you!
Yes we are doing lots of repition at home, and articulation is his biggest issue, we have noticed that even when he aquires a new word, it takes a while for him to be able to say it in a way that we understand and then even longer for some other people to understand it.
We were just worried because he has a severe trauma history and has malformations to his head, we were worried that it may be aquired apraxia due to that.
But if either way, he needs to work through it then I think we'll keep trying the Speech first.
His Mental Health therapist said that she thinks as he is better able to communicate that he will start to lessen his anxiety and therefore be able to communicate even more.... she is also concerned about the Apraxia diagnosis if it points to more severe trauma than we know about.
The Speech therapist said that a Neurologist would probably suggest Speech therapy and perhaps an MRI, but since at his age we would need to sedate him to do that, she is suggesting going with just Speech for at least 6 months, although she doesn't think that seeing a Neurologist is a bad idea she just doesn't want to overwhelm him right now, which I totally agree with.
So, well here we'll see.
Thanks again,
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