Wonderful book!!! Lots of information and very helpful. My son started speech therapy when he wasn't speaking at around 1.5. By age 2, he knew a few signs, and would say a word or two here and there - but would never repeat the words. He had about 3-5 "sounds" that sort of passed as words, but that was it. And, although I was definitely attentive to his needs, I wasn't making it so that he didn't have a reason to use words. Although he was to young to be diagnosed with Apraxia, I was certain that was the issue, as was his speech therapist (although she wouldn't technically diagnose him due to his age). There were so many reasons why, but I won't go into all of that here.
One of the suggestions in the book (which I had seen in passing on a blog once) in the Alternate therapy section, was the use of fish oil. I immediately started using Nordic Natural ProEFA-3-6-9 (lemon flavored) and, while I realize this is purely anecdotal and could be complete coincidence (however I don't believe so AT ALL) the results were astounding!! At 25 months old, and within 10 days of taking 2 every morning (poking a hole in the capsules and squirting it in his mouth), he had 25 words. Some still weren't clear, but they were consistent! A month later I stopped writing down the words b/c there were over 70. A month later was our last speech therapy because he was using 2-3 word phrases, was repeating multi syllabic words I would say, and was even using possessive's and plural correctly. As I mentioned, I'd read something similar on an Apraxia blog but completely discounted it because it seemed a little far-fetched. Once I read about it's possible benefits in this book, I felt it was more of a legitimate option. And Thank God I did!!!!
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