Speech apraxia

👶 Childhood apraxia of speech is a neurological speech sound disorder. 🤷‍♀️ It is an often misunderstood diagnosis, so read more about apraxia here! 📚

Is your child more of a thinker than a talker? Read this if you are worried about speech delays. A mom shares important info on Childhood Apraxia of Speech.

I see you. You’re the mom in the grocery store nervously trying to explain to the nice old lady why your son isn’t telling her his name. You’re the dad over by the jungle gym watching other kids ca…

Our Apraxia & Articulation Cards includes print cards for practicing CVCV, CVCVCV, and CVCVCVCV words.These flashcards were designed to support your therapy plans for children with motor speech disorders such as Childhood Apraxia of Speech and articulation. Includes our prompting/cuing hierarchy for ways to support acquisition. Choose 7-10 words to target with the individual. Incorporate a “Motor Speech” approach using chosen targets.

Four years ago, I was the stay-at-home-mom of 2-under-2. Juggling two babies in diapers while trying my best to be a decent wife and maintain my emotional and physical health certainly brought many…

I recently attended the Colorado Speech, Language and Hearing Association Spring Conference and the speaker gave me a lot to think about. At the conference, Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann, Ph.D., from Portland State University discussed current theories of phonological development and various treatment approaches. What she said made a lot of sense and affirmed the approach I take in therapy for the young nonverbal child. It is very risky to diagnosis a young nonverbal child with childhood…

We are going to see a lot morelinks with genetics and CAS in the future

Working with kiddos with Childhood Apraxia of Speech can be challenging and yet so rewarding. I have also found it is pretty difficult to ...

Vowel errors are common in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech and Apraxia therapy must address vowel errors and vowel distortions. So how do you target vowel errors in apraxia therapy? What target words should you use to target vowel distortions in speech therapy? And what speech therapy resources are best to target vowel errors during speech therapy sessions? Here you will learn more about why children with CAS struggle with vowel errors and how to target these errors in apraxia…

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Want to understand how it feels to not be able to talk? Read this poem by Evelyn Byrne written through the eyes of her son with apraxia.

Chaining is a very effective cueing technique in Apraxia therapy. It can use used with children with childhood apraxia of speech to correct a distorted sound in a word and to work on omission of initial and final sounds in a word. Not sure how to use forward and backward chaining in apraxia therapy? Here you will learn what forward and backward chaining is, how to use it in apraxia therapy and my step by step process for using forward and backward chaining with children with CAS.

While it can be tempting to segment words in speech therapy, this may not be the best approach with students with childhood apraxia of speech. Apraxia therapy is all about movement and children with childhood apraxia of speech have difficulty moving from one sound to the next. So how do we work on helping children produce all the sounds in a word without segmenting? What strategies can SLPs use? Learn my favorite alternatives to segmenting and how to use them in Apraxia therapy here.

SLPs, do you have a client with Childhood Apraxia of Speech or Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech? Do you know how to use word repetition in a way that best benefits children with CAS? While word repetition is an important part of language based therapy and apraxia therapy, the approach is very different. Here you will learn how to best use word repetition in apraxia therapy and how it differs from strategies used in language based therapy.