Apraxia

the world and would be there forever. The inevitable waves soon came and attacked the kingdom taking every last piece of grain back into the ocean. As child I suffered from a speech impediment called Childhood Apraxia of Speech; it is a motor speech disorder. Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech have problems saying words,…

on my caseload, of which three were diagnosed with apraxia and three who have traits of apraxia of speech. Over the years, I have treated about eight kids with childhood apraxia of speech. For those who do not have the diagnosis, I do not feel comfortable in diagnosing them; I have never given an apraxia assessment. Over the years, my experiences and continuing education have provided me with the bare minimum to help clients with childhood apraxia of speech. Some strategies used included…

Anyways, I digress)-I would not change my Apraxia. I would not want to get rid of it. I would hate to lose my accent. I would hate to have missed the journey I went on. I would have missed the late nights of homework between speech therapy and school. I would have missed out on learning that you can still fail miserably, even if you try your best. I would have missed out on learning life lessons far beyond my years. I would not change my Apraxia. But, if I could, I would change…

The authors of the article, “Systematic Review of Apraxia Treatments to Improve Occupational Performance Outcomes”, set out to evaluate serval of the currently published treatments for apraxia, in order to find which type of intervention is most effective on a patient’s occupational skills. The need for such a review stems from the fact that many apraxia studies lack a focus on occupational performance, such as ADL’s and IADL’s. After setting up the criteria for selecting the articles to be…

A person with apraxia will be unable to put words together, use the correct word, pronounce long words or make sentences. It is also the inability to create and sequence the neural impulses necessary to create the appropriate movements for speech. Apraxia is characterized by limiting prosody, articulation errors, slowed rate and the visible groping about the tongue, lips and mandible. Apraxia is divided into two categories, which are Acquired Apraxia that results from a brain damage…

my undergraduate major. For example, Dr. Ellis presentation on Aphasia Prognosis, Recovery Patterns and Outcomes correlated with the information that I am currently learning in Neuroscience course. Additionally, Dr. Clark presentation about Child Apraxia of Speech: Severity Matters, was very interesting because I wrote a teerm paper on this topic in my anatomy and physiology course. Both presentations gave me an opportunity to clearly connect knowledge from undergraduate courses to real life…

errors which result in incorrect production of phonemes it is also characterized as substitutions when on phoneme is replaced with another, omissions is to delete a phoneme, distortions is when a nonstandard form of a phoneme is used or additions. Apraxia of speech is a neurological disorder where an articulation issue is a production…

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…

The study by Blythe Lagasse in 2012 is titled, “Evaluation of Melodic Intonation Therapy for Developmental Apraxia of Speech”. As the title states, this study researched Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) for children with apraxia. The purpose of the study was to determine the efficacy of MIT for articulation therapy in this specific population. The study compared speech production following 40 minute MIT sessions to speech productions following 40 minute “traditional” therapy sessions.…

damage the brain tissues. As it is not a specific disease, there are many different types that affect your brain. What dementia and Alzheimer’s have in common is that there is a decline in cognitive function and one of these three components: aphasia, apraxia, and agnosia. Memory loss is the biggest factor with dementia, but memory loss alone is not what causes dementia. With aging, there are short-term memory loss; however, dementia strongly impairs cognitive function, such as issues with…