Apraxia

individual is an educator, and our conversations often center around inclusion, collaboration, human development and the potential in all people. I’m the oldest of six children, and two of my sisters have a diagnosis of Down syndrome; one also has apraxia. Along with teaching and learning, advocacy is also part of my fabric, and my family story. Since challenges or delays in communication impact four of my five…

Communication lies in the heart of every relationship. It imparts a way to connect, share our ideas, understand, and empathize with others. From the beginning of time, using speech and understanding language are the ways that human developed communication with one another. We come into the world longing to communicate with others; our first language is that of crying, eye gaze, and bodily movements. When there are disruptions to the development of or the usage of speech or language,…

According to Duffy (2013), Apraxia of Speech (AOS) is a disturbance in the motor planning or programming of movements that result in phonetically and prosodically disordered speech. Within in this paper, there are four treatment plans discussed and they are as follows; repeated practice with rate and rhythm treatment which focuses on repetition of words and phrases while adding hand tapping during speech, script training which focuses on different sentences and phrases that the client practices,…

Aphasia impairs a person’s ability to hear, speak, read, and write. Those diagnosed with aphasia may also experience swallowing problems, dysarthria (difficulty to articulate speech), or apraxia (inability to perform actions needed to produce speech based on brain damage). The most common cause of aphasia is stroke, but any damage done to the left hemisphere including brain tumors, traumatic brain injury, or progressive neurological disorders…

being exhibited. Broca’s aphasia is then described; this is most frequently associated with expressive aphasia and is characterized by the nonfluency of speech, language impairment, a patient’s right arm or hand going numb, and occasionally oral apraxia. Next, Wernicke’s aphasia is defined as a sensory, receptive aphasia. This type of aphasia is characterized by severe comprehension deficits that affects spoken and written language, the inability to understand what is said, but syntax is…

Cases: 1. A 13-year-old male presents with a two-year history of progressive weaknesses in both upper and lower extremities. He finds it difficult to lift heavy objects off a shelf. When sitting on the floor he has to hold onto objects such as a chair to pull himself up. On examination, there is significant wasting of muscles in the shoulders, upper arms, and hips. There is significant weakness on muscle testing (i.e., the patient is unable to exert a normal force with muscle contraction). On…

Creutzfeldt-Jakob illness (CJD) is uncommon, degenerative, deadly central nervous issue, which influences short of one individual in a million every year. The most sporadic cases happen between the ages of 55 and 65, yet familial cases can happen in more youthful grown-ups. The course of the sickness can be from a couple of weeks to eight years. Nonetheless, the normal length of survival from onset of the disorder is not exactly a year (WebPath). There are three noteworthy classifications of…

Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC, is a major method of treatment for aphasia. This treatment allows the individual with aphasia to be a conversation partner and engage in communication that may have been limited before treatment. It is crucial with aphasia to begin fostering communication through AAC very early on in the treatment process. These AAC devices can include low-technology device or high-technology devices (Fried-Oken, Beukelman, & Hux, 2011). One type of AAC…

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meeting violated the procedural requirement of IDEA and invalidated the IEP. Case II On July 27, 2015 T. O. et al v. Summit City Board of Education determined that Summit failed to provide a free appropriate public education to J.O. who suffered from apraxia of speech and dyspraxia. According to the parents, the school withdrew their child from the district on March 9, 2011 and placed him at MCA in September 2011. The court understood that J. O’s parents had attempted to work cooperatively…