Verbal Apraxia

That's our "diagnosis" for now. We met with the speech and language pathologist and the occupational therapist/services coordinator today through Early Childhood Intervention. It was quite enlightening and yet a little heartbreaking at the same time. :(

For Isaac's developmental stages there is quite a broad range. Just for reference he's 22 months. For his physical stages (fine/gross motor) he's at 28 months; adaptive/cognitive - 27 months; social/personal - 35 months.....but his expressive speech is at 9 months. :( He comprehends everything (24 months) but just can't verbalize it.

So we'll be starting bi-monthly speech therapy with at home exercises to do in between. It makes me sad on the one hand because every mom wants to believe her children are the smartest, fastest, best, most perfect children....and then something like this just hits you between the eyes. I know in the grand scheme of things, it's not that big of a deal...but it's still sad to me. They expect that we'll see huge improvements by 6 months and that within a year he may not qualify for services at all any more....but it's that uncertainty that weighs heavy on my mind.