Treatment Areas: Speech - Apraxia of Speech
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (also called Developmental Verbal Apraxia) is a neurological disorder resulting in difficulty sequencing and coordinating the motor movements necessary for speech production. Childhood Apraxia of Speech is not a condition children typically outgrow. With a wide variety of treatment programs available, children often benefit from intensive, individualized speech therapy.
A child with Childhood Apraxia of Speech may have:
- significantly compromised speech intelligibility.
- difficulty producing vowels as well as consonant sounds.
- inconsistent errors.
- increase in frequency of errors as utterance increases in length and complexity.
- delayed onset of speech.
- difficulty with volitional, self-initiated utterances rather than rote or modeled utterances.
- slow, choppy or monotone speech.
- groping or observable physical struggle with speech production.
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