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Hello! What a time it has been. Our daughter, Rose, has "mixed receptive-expressive language disorder." She's been receiving speech therapy since age three,...
Hi Barbara! Both apraxia and autism are multi faceted neurologically based communication disorders, which means both types of children have underlying...
Lisa: I haven't been able to locate any apraxia brochures yet--but I'll keep looking. Good luck, Karyn [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi Karyn and Lisa, Not sure what you are looking for. Have you seen this? http://www.cherab.org/information/latetalkerhandout.html Also a new page you may...
How's therapy going? Share your speech (or other) therapy highlights, vents and questions here! Here's an update from the founder... Jovan was evaluated by...
... keep ... Thanks Karen. We are filing our lawsuit next week. We fortunately have hired a world renouned neurologist who specializes in language disorders....
Hi Lisa, I sent you an e-mail to the cherab address. If you don't receive it, please send me your email address so I can give you some of our info. Lisa...
In all honesty, I'd sign the forms since that's what's going to get you therapy. I believe that many of these children have these types of symptoms due to...
In general, you need a label or diagnosis in order to get services. PDD-NOS is a very broad character, almost a catch all when they don't know where else to...
Lisa; I'm so glad you have a neurologist who thinks that way. We can't always determine what comes first: are the behaviors interfering with or contributing...
Tamara: The diagnostic label of PDD-NOS is a sort of catch-all indicating delays including overall communication skills. You need to consider what services ...
Here's a very interesting opinion about the term "PDD" that was brought to my attention (thanks Lisa Geng!). This doctor believes that there is no such thing...
I took Sarah to see a Developmental Pediatrician yesterday over at UCI. He says she has PDD. I asked him, do you mean she has Autism, and he said No, she...
http://www.wiautism.com/apraxia.htm I thought this was the best explanation of the differences between PDD (Autism) and Apraxia that I have read so far. Jill -...
I wouldn't sign anything that you are not comfortable with. Who exactly did the diagnosing (Was it a doctor?)? I haven't looked into SSI yet, but we did...
Hi. I am a software engineer from Devils Lake ND. I have many friends and family who work with the disabled and the elderly. It is a well known fact that...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IEP_guide/links ... the school. It had lots of colorfull murals on all the walls, kids art work everywher, all the kids looked to...
Tamara -thought the Voices group would be interested in this Fw. message from the CHERAB grouplist from neurodevelopmental MD, Medical Director of NYC Early...
Hi my name is Stacey and I have a 12 yr daughter with Aspergers/ADD. She was diagnosed at the age of five and she is in social and speech. She used to stutter...
Please Join Us!! VOICES Parent Support Group Victory Over Impairments of Communication, Expression and Speech May 22, 2003 5:30 - 7:30 Helping the Speech...
where is this happening? ________________________________________________ CENTER for LANGUAGE & LITERACY WEB SITE: www.Tejas-SLP.com DEBORAH JILL CHITESTER...
Hi Deborah! The meeting is in California. The information on venue and time is on the website. Please visit http://www.4voices.org for more information. ...
Hi all! I'm Erika, wife to Chris for 12+yrs and home educating mom to Zekariah, Luke and Daniel. Zekariah is 10.5yrs old and was diagnosed at age 3 with...
Hi, I was wondering if you have a list of doctors or SLPs in Los Angeles area who specialize in diagnosing and treating childhood Apraix, better yet with a lot...
Hi Erika! Welcome to VOICES! Your family sounds wonderful! I commend anyone who homeschool's their child(ren). I know that there are many challenges to...
... Angeles area who specialize in diagnosing and treating childhood Apraix, better yet with a lot of experience with autism too. My 4 1/2 old son Andy was...