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.google.com/search?q=vowel+turtles&oq=vowel+turtles&aqs=chrome..69i57.6216j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Grief of Diagnosis (course notes)
Overcoming Apraxia - book by Laura Smith
Parent Resources
Websites ▪ apraxia-kids.org ▪ onceuponatime.org Social Media ▪ slpmommyofapraxia ▪ jordapraxia ▪ marquette_cml_lab ▪ cariebertseminars
Contact:
jenya.iuzzini-seigel@marquette.edu
lauraslpmommy@gmail.com
Evaluation - Course 8287
This is Part 1 of a five part series, Current Best Practices in the Evaluation and Management of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS): A Multidimensional Approach.
https://www.speechpathology.com/E/8324/1082891/a81c72bb48c3bfd32e
Amy Skinder-Meredith
Mereditha@wsu.edu
https://www.asha.org/policy/tr2007-00278/#sec1.1.2
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/childhood-apraxia-of-speech/symptoms-causes/syc-20352045
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