Apraxia of speech is an acquired motor speech disorder that prevents a person from being able to use motor planning to translate words they plan to say into actual speech. The condition occurs as ...

Apraxia is treatable with speech therapy, she says. In fact, she adds, it’s the only evidence-based treatment for apraxia. She says therapy is intense and frequent, ideally multiple times a week. It ...

Childhood Apraxia of Speech is not about the oral or facial muscles being too weak for speaking, it is about a disruption in the child's ability to plan the movements of all the oral structures ...

Apraxia is a speech motor disorder that makes it difficult for people to speak. One four-year-old is working with therapists to find his voice, and his family is sharing his story.

Technical Terms Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A neurodevelopmental motor speech disorder affecting the precision, timing, and sequencing of speech movements.

Therapy, diet helps with apraxia NOUR HABIB World Scene Writer Aug 30, 2012 Aug 30, 2012 0 1 of 3 ...

Individuals with heterozygous 16p11.2 deletions reportedly suffer from a variety of difficulties with speech and language. Indeed, recent copy-number variant screens of children with childhood ...

Two subtypes of ataxia with oculomotor apraxia have been described. Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia 1 is caused by a mutation in the APTX gene at locus 9p13.3. The APTX gene encodes for the APTX ...