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Four moms and four kids are in the backyard having a play date. But in a reversal http://www.falconsauthenticofficial.com/Jake_Matthews_Jersey_Falcons of what's typical, the moms are louder than the kids. In fact the kids are quiet.
These children have childhood apraxia. Jake Matthews Jersey
Pam Aslagson adopted her daughter Alexandra when she was a year old. Aslagson says, "She did not start talking until three months after her fourth birthday."
Speech language pathologist Janet Jacobs, co owner of Associated Speech and Language Specialists in Arden Hills, describes childhood apraxia as, " a disorder in the nervous system which really affects the child's ability to produce a sound or combine sounds or syllables in order to say words. So the brain's trying to give instructions to the jaw, the lips, the tongue how to produce sounds and the instructions are not coming through. The child tries to make sounds but can't put them together to make words."
Carrie Edberg's son Garrett has apraxia. She says, "He was a very quiet baby he never cooed. He never babbled. He was just very content just sitting there."
Apraxia also affects his fine and gross motor skills. She says, "You know he's almost four and I say he's about a good year behind sometimes two on what he does."
Edberg's desire to meet other families dealing with apraxia prompted her, this year, to create the Minnesota Childhood Apraxia Falcons Ra'Shede Hageman Jersey Support Group which hosts play dates like these.