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[3totsinabox]

My 5 yo ds has just been suspected to have CAS. Now, I am looking for some info on what happens from here. He already recieves services through school. They are not enough and don't know about the CAS, YET. Children's was the one to confirm my suspicions after I have not seen any improvement over the last year and a half. We are in the begining stages so I am sure I will learn more as time goes on. I would like to hear ur experiences though. Thanks. Nice meeting u all.

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[MamaJane]

 Welcome.  What are the intials CAS, for?  Is it something Apraxia of speech?  Sorry I've never hear that abbreviation.

If it is Apraxia then he'll just continue on with the same services.  If he's not in full preschool then see if they can test him for the remainder of the year. Apaxia takes repetition and more therapy then they are often willing to give you in early programs.  Once my ds got into regular age school he got much more therapy and improved at a much faster rate.  At 5 he was still at a 30 % intelligibility(and that was if you knew him and what he was talking about.).  At 11 he's 100%.

[3totsinabox]

Yes u are correct. I am hoping we are able to get him more then what he getting now. He starts kindergarten this fall. While he seems to make friends in his class, he isnot able to fully communicate with everyone. Kids are pretty resilant at this point and can figure him out.

[MamaJane]

 Yeah they do alright at that young age.  Cameron's friends occasionally said things to me like "Why does he speak Spanish?" 

[shell5403]

Welcome!

My little boy just turned 4 this year and has been getting speech terapy through the school since last spring, however he just recently started individual therapy from a center. In just a few session I was amazed on how much he could actually say. He is very severe still in his speech, but I'm glad I looked into individual therapy. He goes 3 times a week and he loves it!!

[3totsinabox]

Can I ask u how u can afford three times a week? I have pay 75 for once a week. I haveto talk with the school to up his individual time. I have been looking to financial assistants to see if we could get some help.

Quoting shell5403:

Welcome!

My little boy just turned 4 this year and has been getting speech terapy through the school since last spring, however he just recently started individual therapy from a center. In just a few session I was amazed on how much he could actually say. He is very severe still in his speech, but I'm glad I looked into individual therapy. He goes 3 times a week and he loves it!!

[mynameismuerte]

My 5 year old has Apraxia.  I would honestly find out if any of the SLPs at the school have any experience with it. (It's actually an uncommon diagnosis.)  I would ask the SLP to look into the Kauffman materials to use with him (our first SLP at a public school did exactly that) and I'd demand that he gets individual sessions and not just group.  Most public schools like to just put them in group settings and it's just not as effective with CAS.

We're planning on homeschooling him in the fall when he's supposed to start Kindergarten.  I don't want him to be discouraged or dislike school because of jerky kids or people.  

I can tell you that we have been infinitely blessed with the SLPs at the 2 schools we've been at now (different states).  We haven't needed private speech therapy since he turned 3.  He's made tremendous progress.  So much so that I figured the diagnosis may actually be wrong up until his recent evaluation.  

[3totsinabox]

 Thanks.  It has been a few months now.  He is in a specialized class for preschool with the school district.  The school doesn't seem to care or understand Apraxia.  His preschool teacher even said that she thinks I read up on it through the internet and scared myself.  Which is not the case at all.  I just wanted and did educate myself.  I have in private speech therapy now and his SLP is wonderful. His IEP for next year looks good at this point.  The will NOT increase any individual time at this point. I am sorta frustrated with them, but want to see how kindergarten goes first before I say for sure how I like it one way or the other.  The school tested him for cognitive delays because that is what they were leaning towards. He did not meet the requirement to qualify. 

My SLP gave me some info for a deaf school in our area that has a class for hearing children with Apraxia.  If things are not working out next year, I will be looking to switching him. 

I feel like right now the school wants to believe one thing and I have documentation about something totally different.  What I have learned is that schools are purely academic, where as private speech works on a multitude of areas and works with the child's individual progress.

Quoting mynameismuerte:

My 5 year old has Apraxia.  I would honestly find out if any of the SLPs at the school have any experience with it. (It's actually an uncommon diagnosis.)  I would ask the SLP to look into the Kauffman materials to use with him (our first SLP at a public school did exactly that) and I'd demand that he gets individual sessions and not just group.  Most public schools like to just put them in group settings and it's just not as effective with CAS.

We're planning on homeschooling him in the fall when he's supposed to start Kindergarten.  I don't want him to be discouraged or dislike school because of jerky kids or people.  

I can tell you that we have been infinitely blessed with the SLPs at the 2 schools we've been at now (different states).  We haven't needed private speech therapy since he turned 3.  He's made tremendous progress.  So much so that I figured the diagnosis may actually be wrong up until his recent evaluation.