Apraxia Speech Therapy for Children
From the CASANA (The Childhood Apraxia of Speech of North America) website: “Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder that first becomes apparent as a young child is learning speech. For reasons not yet fully understood, children with apraxia of speech have great difficulty planning and producing the precise, highly refined and specific series of movements of the tongue, lips, jaw and palate that are necessary for intelligible speech. Apraxia of speech is sometimes called verbal apraxia, developmental apraxia of speech, or verbal dyspraxia.”
Here are some useful links below:
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- Childhood Apraxia of Speech – (ASHA Website)
75% of Apraxia Cases Misdiagnosed -(SpeechLanguageFeeding.com)
Treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A Description of Integral Stimulation and Motor Learning – THE ASHA LEADER (November 2007)
Verbal Apraxia Symptoms: Part of a Larger Syndrome – ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists (January 2010)
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech – (ASHA Website)