| I have a child with Dyspraxia also called Apraxia.
In my quest for more information on speech/language disorders,
I had happen to me what could only be considered an act of fate.
The doctors certainly were not providing me the information
I minimally needed to understand and at best to assure we were
doing our best as parents.
My story goes like this.
After a number of years of speech therapy, my son and I happen
to be in the Mt Wachusset ski lodge on break. He was about 6
at the time. We shared the table with a group of teenagers
with one adult. She happended to have on the table at this ski
area a book on Aphasia. I asked to browes it out of curiosity
on the title (Aphasia ~ Apraxia) and found that it was on language
disorders. In my conversation with her, I discovered that she
was a speech pathologist from Boston out on a field trip with
her young patience. After a healthy discussion and an interview
with my son, she volunteered to send me information, which she did.
She send me both information and pages of references.
I then went to U Mass in Worcester and did my own research.
As someone told me, Massachusetts is the Mecca
of Medicine.
I walked out with a wealth of information and a healthy sense of
great accomplishment.
What I got was a the 'big picture' of speech/language disorders
along with a breakdown of Apraxia. You may need more specific
research in your case.
From what I recall.
Aphasia is a higher level language disorder.
Apraxia is a lower level speech disorder.
Dysphasia and Dyspraxia vs Aphasia and Apraxia are different in that
the latter are usually associated with some insult to the body either
during birth or afterward (i.e. a stroke) The Dys..... are usually associated
with pre-birth disorders, but this is only deduced when other events are
excluded.
I'd be glad to provide this info to others.
Fate or something else is real.
Please contact me at this EMAIL address.
Dan
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