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  1. Apraxia of speech (AOS) is a “neurologic speech disorder that reflects an impaired capacity to plan or program sensorimotor commands necessary for directing movements that result in phonetically and prosodically normal speech” (Duffy, 2013, p. 4).

  2. Apraxia of speech is sometimes called acquired apraxia of speech, verbal apraxia, or dyspraxia. It is a motor speech disorder. You can also have apraxia in other parts of your body, like in your arms or legs. This is called limb apraxia. How serious your apraxia is depends on what type of brain damage you have.

  3. Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a neurological childhood (pediatric) speech sound disorder in which the precision and consistency of movements underlying speech are impaired in the absence of neuromuscular deficits (e.g. abnormal reflexes, abnormal tone).

  4. May 1, 2011 · Acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) is a treatable neurologic, sensorimotor speech disorder. The primary clinical characteristics considered necessary for the diagnosis of AOS include: 1) a slow rate of speech resulting in lengthened sound segments and intersegment durations, 2) speech-sound errors such as sound distortions and/or distorted sound ...

    • Shannon C. Mauszycki, Julie Wambaugh
    • 2011
  5. Mar 1, 2017 · While our work settings often dictate formats for documentation, these examples of diagnostic statements show how clinicians might summarize different presentations of childhood apraxia of speech.

  6. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32 (3), 1336-1359. This updated systematic review invesitgates the effects of speech and language therapy interventions for adults with acquired apraxia of speech.

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  8. May 4, 2023 · Focusing on self-administrated therapies, use of technology for therapy administration and development of treatments that focus on apraxia of speech and aphasia simultaneously were identified as new advancements in the apraxia of speech literature.

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