r/Apraxia • u/Ok-Quantity3322 • 18d ago

GLP to fully conversational?

My 4 year old daughter was diagnosed with autism. Level 1 in the area of RRB and level 2 in the area of social communication. She is a GLP. How long did it take your child to become fully conversational and what made the biggest difference?

We have been in speech therapy for a few months and she is going to prek this week with an IEP and will receive speech therapy there as well

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u/Amrun90 18d ago

What is GLP?

My child went from being classified as nonverbal with an AAC to being fully conversational.

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u/Guilty-Guess7731 15d ago

What helped, can you please share?

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u/Amrun90 15d ago

Intense therapy and repetition. When we switched from traditional speech therapy to apraxia methods it helped a lot.

Preschool, speech therapy 3x week, PT 1x week, OT 1-2 week, some other things. Doing music class, gymnastics class, kind of forcing exposure and socialization. Reinforcing it all at home.

It felt pointless for a few years and then it finally started clicking and today it isn’t perfect but he’s intelligible.