PURPOSE This study systematically reviews the literature on the main tools used to evaluate childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). RESEARCH STRATEGY The search strategy includes Scopus, PubMed, and Embase databases. SELECTION CRITERIA Empirical studies that used tools for assessing CAS were selected. DATA ANALYSIS Articles were selected by two independent researchers. RESULTS The search ret...

BACKGROUND Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is associated with phonological awareness, reading, and spelling deficits. Comparing literacy skills in CAS with other developmental speech disorders is critical for understanding the complexity of the disorder. AIMS This study compared the phonological awareness and reading development of children with CAS and children with inconsistent speech dis...

Left hand apraxia is known as a unique symptom of callosal apraxia, but lower limb symptoms are rarely mentioned. We report a patient who experienced left ideomotor apraxia affecting both the upper and lower limbs after a stroke in the territory of the right anterior cerebral artery. His spontaneous gait was normal, but he was unable to move his left leg intentionally either by verbal command o...

Childhood apraxia of speech(CAS) is considered as an impairment of purposeful speech movements and is generally defined as a disorder of motor planning or motor programming. There have been a variety of studies about CAS and the diagnostic criteria were set up in English-speaking countries, but studies about diagnostic criteria of CAS for Korean speakers are needed. The purpose of the study was...

In this article, the authors provide background concerning the nature of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and conventional speech-based treatments for it. In addition they discuss a clinical decision-making process within which to consider the appropriateness of nonspeech oral motor exercises (NSOMEs). This process requires clinicians to ask questions of themselves as they interpret clinical o...

A central question in Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is whether the core phenotype is limited to transcoding (planning/programming) deficits or if speakers with CAS also have deficits in auditory-perceptual encoding (representational) and/or memory (storage and retrieval of representations) processes. We addressed this and other questions using responses to the Syllable Repetition Task (SRT)...

Interstitial deletions encompassing chromosome 16p13.3-13.2 are rarely described in the literature, whereas terminal deletions or duplications involving this region are slightly more frequently described. The authors describe a boy harboring a de novo 16p13.3-13.2 interstitial deletion, with intellectual disability, verbal dyspraxia, epilepsy, and a distinctive brain magnetic resonance finding,...

Introduction Apraxia is defined as a disorder of learned skilled movements, in the absence of elementary motor or sensory deficits and general cognitive impairment, such as inattention to commands, object-recognition deficits or poor oral comprehension. Limb apraxia has long been a challenge for clinical assessment and understanding and covers a wide spectrum of disorders, all involving motor c...

The verbal dyspraxic individual experiences difficulty with oral expressive production which manifests itselfin misarticulating, struggling to achieve the correct articulatory patterns and transitionalizingfrom one pattern to the next. Whether phonological selection errors occur is a controversial issue. Prosodic aspects of speech are often involved; however, whether as an integral part of the ...

Background: Neuroimaging studies of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) have not revealed any systematic macrostructural abnormalities. Further, no studies have investigated connectivity of sensory-motor circuitries subserving speech and their possible changes after intervention in children with CAS. The first aim of this preliminary study was to identify possible altered neural networks in child...