Hi! For this week intervention I’ve searched information about the intervention in children with apraxia of speech.
First of all, as we have read in lecture 4, the apraxia of speech is a neurological speech sound disorder in which the precision and consistency of movements relating speech are impaired without the presence of neuromuscular deficits.
To treat this disorder, the therapy for children is focused on facilitating overall communication and language skills by: increasing speech production and intelligibility or, when indicated, using AAC, such as gestures, manual signs, voice output devices, and context-specific communication boards (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association). To achieve this, many times are necessary intensive and individualized treatments.
According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association the treatment approaches that focus on improving speech production can be classified in: motor programming, linguistic, combination, and rhythmic (prosodic) approaches. In addition, the majority of treatment approaches emphasize movement patterns versus sound patterns. For doing that, they use different techniques as shaping the best accurate productions possible or sensory cueing approaches. The latter includes visual cueing, verbal/auditory cues and tactile facilitation.
I found a video that shows how to stimulate initial sound using auditory, visual and tactile cues in children with apraxia of speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgnGGlfjdbM
Personally, I didn’t have much information about this disorder and I found it interesting to know more about it. Before doing this reading, did you know about this disorder or did you have information about its treatment?
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association:
https://www.asha.org/PRPSpecificTopic.aspx?folderid=8589935338§ion=Treatment
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