Apraxia: Basics and Beyond
Definition - a neurological pediatric speech disorder characterized by poor planning and programming of speech sound sequences. Prevalence - one child per 1,000. (approximately one child per elementary school, or two elementary schools) Cooccurring Conditions - language disorder, fine and gross motor impairments (50 to 80%) Core Impairment - planning and/or programming of spatiotemporal parameters of movement sequences results in: errors in speech sound production and prosody. (ASHA 2007, p. 3-4) Ten Characteristics of CAS (Shriberg 2017) -Segmental Vowel Errors Voicing Errors Distorted Substitutions Difficulty Acheiving Articulatory Configurations or Transitory Movement Gestures Groping Intrusive schwa Increased Difficulty with Multi-Syllabic Words -SupraSegmental Syllable segregation Slow speech and/or diadokinetic rate Equal Stress or Lexical stress errors Basics (course notes) https://www.apraxia-kids.org/ https://www.google.com/search?q=vowel+turtles&oq=vowel+turtles&