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&aqs=chrome..69i57.6216j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Easy Does it Apraxia

basics SpeechPathologydotcom


Grief of Diagnosis (course notes)

Overcoming Apraxia - book by Laura Smith

SLP Mommy of Apraxia

Parent Resources

Websites ▪ apraxia-kids.org ▪ onceuponatime.org Social  Media ▪ slpmommyofapraxia ▪ jordapraxia ▪ marquette_cml_lab ▪ cariebertseminars

PowerPoint & Refereces

Course Transcript

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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