The diagnosis

This morning, after Kevin's therapy session, the therapist pulled me into her office.  She told me that, after having worked with Kevin for several months now, she feels that he does have Apraxia of Speech.

Apparently, she was hesitant to talk with me about this, since many mothers tend to freak out when they receive a diagnosis regarding their child.  Having already done my research, however, I was fully expecting to find out that Kevin has apraxia.

It's good to know exactly what's going on with Kevin so that I can find better ways to help him progress.  Realistically, though, having a name to Kevin's problem doesn't really make a difference in our lives.  We'd be going to speech therapy one way or the other!

What the therapist did tell me is that she feels that Kevin is progressing nicely so far.  She feels that he will learn to speak correctly.  Her guess is that by the time he goes to school, he'll be able to express himself nicely, although he'll probably still be in speech therapy at that point.

As a reminder to all of my readers (few that they may be!), Childhood Apraxia of Speech is a condition that is caused by, basically, a lack of coordination between the brain and the mouth.  Kevin understands everything that's said to him and knows what he wants to say.  However, he is not sure of how to move his mouth and tongue in order to produce the right sounds.

So, it looks like we'll be in speech therapy for the long haul!  I'll keep everyone posted as time goes on.