Childhood Apraxia of Speech

By: Putt Choonhanirunrit 1208

Table of Contents.

01. 02.
The Disease Symptoms
Overal information Signs & Pathology

03. 04.
Recommendation Diagnosis
Prevention Treatments
01.
About the
Disease
Overall information
About the Disease.

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a

speech disorder in which a child’s brain has
difficulty coordinating the complex oral
movements needed to create sounds into
syllables, syllables into words, and words into
phrases. Muscle weakness is not to blame
with this disorder.
02.
Symptoms
Signs & Pathology
Signs

● Limited babbling, or variation

within babbling
● Limited phonetic diversity
● Inconsistent errors
● Increased errors or difficulty
with longer or more complex
syllable and word shapes
● Omissions, particularly in word
initial syllable shapes
● Vowel errors/distortions
● Excessive, equal stress
Pathology

Motor Speech Not much data

Disorder Unknown cause available
There is something in In most cases, the cause The number of children
the child's brain that is unknown. diagnosed with the
does not allow CAS can’t be outgrown; disorder appears to be
messages to get to the treatment is required to on the rise, but it is hard
mouth muscles to make progress. to measure how the
produce speech incidence has changed
correctly. over time.
03.
Recommendation
Prevention
Unfortunately there is no known way to prevent
childhood apraxia of speech. It is a neurological
condition, tied to the brain’s development.
04.
Diagnosis
Treatments
Treatment.

Hearing tests Speech practice at home

to determine if hearing The speech-language pathologist
problems could be contributing may give words and phrases to
to the speech problems. practice at home that he or she has
learned in speech therapy.

Speech therapy Paced Learning

The speech-language pathologist will The speech-language pathologist may use a
usually provide therapy that focuses small set of practice words at first, and
on practicing syllables, words and gradually increase the number of words for
phrases. practice as your child improves.
References.

● https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/childhood
-apraxia-of-speech/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20352051
● https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/childhood-apra
xia-speech
● https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17911-
childhood-apraxia-of-speech/prevention
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