A Review of Childhood Apraxia of Speech and the Effectiveness of
Motor-Based Intervention Therapy
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), also referred to as Developmental Apraxia of Speech, is one of the most perplexing and poorly understood speech disorder found among children. Due to its perplexity, professionals have been unable to compose a definitive definition for CAS. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA, 2007) broadly defines CAS as a neurological pediatric speech sound disorder in which the motor movements needed in speech production lack accuracy and consistency with no signs or forms of neuromuscular deficit. Generally speaking, children diagnosed with CAS show difficulty planning and sequencing the motor movements
Motor-Based Intervention Therapy
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), also referred to as Developmental Apraxia of Speech, is one of the most perplexing and poorly understood speech disorder found among children. Due to its perplexity, professionals have been unable to compose a definitive definition for CAS. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA, 2007) broadly defines CAS as a neurological pediatric speech sound disorder in which the motor movements needed in speech production lack accuracy and consistency with no signs or forms of neuromuscular deficit. Generally speaking, children diagnosed with CAS show difficulty planning and sequencing the motor movements