Jake’s Oral and Verbal Apraxia Gets Nutritional Help While Waiting Over A Year For An SLP

“NV truly has been a miracle, not just for Jake, but for our entire family”~Angela, Jake’s mom Jake and his little brother 2013 “As far as his expressive language goes treat him like he is a deaf child. Teach him sign language & get him an aid in school so he can be mainstreamed with a signing aid. Also get him a speaking device that will ease his frustration.” ~Jake’s first pediatric neurologist Imagine hearing that from your child’s... Read More

Speech Therapy Matrix

Guideline for Speech-Language Eligibility Criteria/Matrix for Schools In addition to a diagnosis such as apraxia, dysarthria, phonological impairment etc. it’s important to know the severity level of your child’s diagnosis when seeking appropriate therapy.  This matrix which was first developed for school based SLPs. In the following chart Mild, Moderate, Severe, and Profound refers to the severity of the child’s speech disorder. Know the severity of your child’s... Read More

We Are the Parents (Poem) by Kay Kronquist

We Are the Parents (Poem) by Kay Kronquist We are the parents of children with special needs. Our lives are filled with many things, some good, some not. We have our own alphabet: M-team, OT, PT, SLP, EEG, EKG, IEP, CDC, AFO, MRI. We have our own language: cryptogenic, intractable, disorder, syndrome, early intervention, special education, inclusion, developmental delay. We have lots of doctors: neurologists, developmental pediatricians, neurosurgeons, gastroenterologists, ophthalmologists,... Read More

One Child With Autism, One Child With Apraxia, And The Secret To Their Success

Jilly is a happy baby I have one child that was diagnosed with autism and one child that was diagnosed with apraxia or dyspraxia.  I’m going to share the secret to our success! Jillian is my younger child and is currently 3 and a half years old with a diagnosis of apraxia or dyspraxia and she has been in therapy through Early Intervention since she was 18 months old. Jillian’s was an easy, full term pregnancy, that I just knew she would be a perfect baby.  We welcomed... Read More

Reading and Academic Abilities For Those With Speech Impairments

“Students Will Rise To the Level of Expectations” ~ Quote from the movie Stand and Deliver The expression “Students Rise To the Level of Expectation” had to be inspired by the brilliant work by Dr. Robert Rosenthal about the effects of teacher’s expectations on students’ academic and physical performance, the effects of experimenters’ expectations on the results of their research, and the effects of clinicians’ expectations on their patients’... Read More

Autism Apraxia Road To Recovery Before and After Videos

Zoe is four years old with a (previous?!) duel diagnosis of PDD NOS or mild autism, and apraxia, with co existing sensory integration dysfunction and hypotonia.  Zoe has been in therapy since 7 months old including speech, occupational and physical therapies.  Zoe has been on fish oils for awhile and more recently the original Nutriiveda since September of 2010 at a much lower dosage than most due to a very sensitive stomach.  This is very interesting because we have found... Read More

Speech Disorder Road to Recovery, Before and After Videos

Michael’s First Day of kindergarten Michael is five years old and diagnosed with a phonological disorder of speech.  Micheal has been in speech therapy since  two years old, and more recently fish oils since December of 2010 which primarily helped with behavior, but his speech was still unintelligible much of the time.  Two weeks after starting Michael on Nutriiveda (NV) and due to the dramatic progress in his articulation in this short period of time, his parents sent... Read More

NV A Paradigm Shift In The Treatment Of TBI and Strokes

Recently the Department of Defense together with the Institute of Medicine published ‘Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury: Improving Acute and Subacute Health Outcomes in Military Personnel (2011)’ While we share on this website numerous parental and professional positive anecdotal reports, this report is validation through clinical validation for the nutritional therapy to treat various neurological conditions including traumatic brain injury and stroke. In the report,... Read More

Apraxia Road to Recovery, Before and After Videos

We know that some of what you read may sound too good to be trueso we asked one of our parents who is a producer for a CBS TV news station if we can publish her own son’s improvements as “seeing is believing” Cooper and his mom Gretchen From Gretchen Walsh, mom of Cooper: My son Cooper was diagnosed as severely apraxic just after he turned three years old. At the time, he was so frustrated with language that he would bang his head into a wall when we couldn’t... Read More