Severe Verbal Apraxia

Lufkin family couldn't understand why toddler couldn't talk — until he was ...

This is something that every parent can not wait to hear - the first word of their child. But Brooke and Melish Stafford, the wait will be longer than normal with their second son, Grant, 3, a bright-eyed, energetic young man whose older brother, Wil, 5, was a speaker earlier.

"Grant would never talk," Melish said. "Wil spoke so early for his age. Grant would never speak at all. He did not even babble. We thought it was very quiet. "

A baby happy and healthy birth, Grant's personality seemed to change as he grew up to toddler.

"It was the happiest baby in the first year," said Melish."After the first year, he started throwing fits. Now in hindsight, I think it was because he was trying to talk and he could not. "

Comforted by the stories of the late talkers of friends and family, Stafford First do not worry about the lack of funding of speech. But since his second year increased by no more than a few words, they began again to ask whether there was a problem.

"People kept saying it was because he had an older brother who spoke for him, but we kept thinking in the back of our minds that something was wrong," said Melish."When he was 2 1 / 2 we finally got an evaluation and he was not even say 10 words. He was not even close to that amount of words he was supposed to be said. It was like a year late. "

The couple had Grant Cornerstone Center Burke early childhood intervention program, where he tried traditional approaches to speech therapists with minimal improvement.

"He has improved a little, but he was not saying anything," said Melish. "It would just babble and he should have said the words. We started to think maybe he just was not very bright."

Concerned, the couple asked both his teacher and a nursery retired teacher to work with him, but he seemed still far behind the others in its class, Melish said.

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