Any other apraxia moms have LOs attending a district preschool? If not, what services did they get once they turned 3? Were you able to get enough individual therapy for them?
The school district only offered 30 minutes of speech a week. We ended up doing private sessions 2-3 per week each session last a hour. DD is six now, she has private speech for one hour a week and 30 minutes a week at school when the SLP is actually there.
Wow! Was your daughter fairly behind or was it a more mild case? They said they also have a speech group offering if he doesn't qualify for the preschool...not sure that is ideal.
I'm still not sure what our plan is for preschool. Initially I was going to have DD evaluated for the PPCD program, but she has made a lot of progress over the last few months and I am not sure that is the right place for her anymore. Neither do her therapists. We will keep our private services going and will supplement with whatever school services we can get. I will tour the PPCD program just in case but I think right now we will do that privately as well.
In the area we live in kids have to be delayed in multiple areas to get into the district preschool programs so the "just speech" kids get walk in services. My DD didn't have her first words until around 2 years old. By 3 years old she could use 2-3 word phrases, but most people couldn't understand what she was saying. Around 3 is when we started working with a PROMPT trained therapist and that's when she made huge progress. Now at the age of six she still has some sounds she loses and struggles with especially when using sentences.
When you say they receive speech therapy is that private (in school) or group? DS1 doesn't seem to be getting ANY private in-school and that is really getting to me. He does better in private (IMO) and although I know he needs group too---it's just not the same for him. My insurance will not cover speech therapy, even for apraxia. So going private is a tough thing for us at $100 an hour for the speech therapists around here. I'm not sure whether to call the co-op and ask for more indiv therapy or if this is the "norm"??
To answer the orig question, originally he was dx with speech apraxia but after about a month in school they indicated some sensory/regulation issues. A YEAR of fighting after that he got occupational therapy. BUT not much. I really suck at this IEP thing.
Re: Placement for LO with apraxia
I'm still not sure what our plan is for preschool. Initially I was going to have DD evaluated for the PPCD program, but she has made a lot of progress over the last few months and I am not sure that is the right place for her anymore. Neither do her therapists. We will keep our private services going and will supplement with whatever school services we can get. I will tour the PPCD program just in case but I think right now we will do that privately as well.
The whole thing totally stresses me out.
When you say they receive speech therapy is that private (in school) or group? DS1 doesn't seem to be getting ANY private in-school and that is really getting to me. He does better in private (IMO) and although I know he needs group too---it's just not the same for him. My insurance will not cover speech therapy, even for apraxia. So going private is a tough thing for us at $100 an hour for the speech therapists around here. I'm not sure whether to call the co-op and ask for more indiv therapy or if this is the "norm"??
To answer the orig question, originally he was dx with speech apraxia but after about a month in school they indicated some sensory/regulation issues. A YEAR of fighting after that he got occupational therapy. BUT not much. I really suck at this IEP thing.
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