A Parent's Guide To Psychological Assessment of Apraxic Children
by Tim Sass
Psychological testing of young children is geared toward assessing several domains including behavior, communication, cognitive, adaptive, and social-emotional functioning. Cognitive assessment tends to get the most attention from parents and teachers, perhaps because of their familiarity with IQ scores. However, a good assessment should do more than just provide an IQ score.
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Apraxia, Hypernasality and Velophayrngeal Incompetence
Other online resources to learn about hyponasality, hypernasality, and Velopharnygeal Insufficiency (VPI)
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Apraxia? Dyspraxia? Articulation? Phonology? What Does It All Mean?
by Nancy Lucker-Lazerson, M.A., CCC-SLP
Your two-year-old says no words, makes some sounds, yet he understands everything you say. Your five-year-old speaks in what appear to be sentences, but all you hear are vowel sounds. Your seven-year-old lisps, and says "wabbit" instead of "rabbit". And your three-year-old talks non-stop, but no one can understand a word that he says. So what do you do?
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Apraxia Links
Links to online resources related to inattention and hyperactivity and the interaction with speech and language development.
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Auditory Processing Disorders
Resources on Auditory Processing Disorders, including links, article references, and organizations.
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Children with Apraxia and Periods of Dysfluency
by David Hammer, M.A., CCC-SLP
As children with apraxia are in therapy for a period of time, they may experience phases of system "overload," when the demands for speech motor complexity appear greater that the capacity to handle them.
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Children with Apraxia and Reading, Writing, and Spelling Difficulties
by Joy Stackhouse, Ph.D.
It is not the case that all children with a history of speech and language difficulties have associated literacy problems. However, school-age children whose speech difficulties persist beyond 5 years of age are most at risk for associated difficulties in reading, spelling and sometimes maths. Let us first consider the nature of persisting speech difficulties with reference to a simple psycholinguistic model of speech processing.
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Children With Apraxia and The Use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication
by Gary Cumley, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
The question needing to be answered by researchers and interventionists is, What effect does the introduction of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) with children having DAS on the quality and quantity of their communication interactions and their overall communicative effectiveness? This article is a thorough review of the topic.
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Children with Apraxia of Speech and Feeding Difficulties.
by Suzanne Evans Morris, Ph.D.
The bottom line is that we can't "get children to eat." To paraphrase a popular phrase "Eating is an inside job." As parents and therapists we simple create the environment in which the child is comfortable with food and is able to develop the skills that support eating more skillfully. When we shift our attention to getting kids to eat, we disrupt the balance of mealtime responsibilities that support an easy flow in the eating process.
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Co-existing Factors with Apraxia of Speech in Children
by Nancy Kaufman, M.A., CCC-SLP
Children with apraxia of speech can often have oral-motor weakness as an additional factor to their motor-speech programming issues.
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