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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"apraxia of speech"”.
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Motor Learning Guided Treatment with Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Cueing & Feedback
The aim of this study was to determine if participants with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) respond with improved speech production when provided motor learning guided (MLG) treatment strategies. Five participants, chronological ages 4;8 to 5;10 years, were provided three different types of …
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The Role of Frustration in Intensive Treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech
… primarily investigates the effects and influence of frustration in children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) in the setting of intensive treatment. Additionally, the study examines the interrater reliability of the frustration rating scale used in an intensive CAS treatment study. Methods: …
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Schedule Distribution and Motor Learning Guided Treatment with Childhood Apraxia of Speech
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of motor learning guided (MLG) treatment with different treatment schedules in the treatment of participants with a diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Five participants, chronological ages 4;6 to 5;11 years, received MLG treatment for …
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Social Functioning Characteristics of a Young Adult with a History of Childhood Apraxia of Speech
<p>Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a pediatric speech sound disorder (SSD) that results from a motor planning impairment for volitional speech movements. This underlying impairment causes pervasive errors in speech sound production and often leads to problems with intelligibility, thus …
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Feature Retention and Phonological Knowledge across Children with Suspected Developmental Apraxia of Speech, Phonological Impairment, and Typically Developing Speech.
<p>The purpose of this research effort was to examine whether the feature retention patterns and phonological knowledge of children with suspected apraxia of speech (AOSc) in comparison to those of children with phonological impairment (PI). A second purpose was to determine if a relationship …
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The Description and Comparison of Feature Retention Patterns for Children with Phonological Impairment Developmental Apraxia of Speech and Typically Developing Children.
<p>The purpose of the present study was to compare feature retention patterns between children developing speech typically (TD) and children with phonological impairment (PI) and to discuss these findings in terms of characteristics, severity, and implication for the identification of developmental …
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The Active Ingredients of Integral Stimulation Treatment: The Efficacy of Auditory, Visual, and Auditory-Visual Cues for Treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech
The purpose of this study was to determine the relative efficacy of cueing modalities employed in Integral Stimulation (IS) treatment for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Previous literature has supported the use of IS for children with CAS, though there are no studies that evaluate the active …
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Perinatal risk indicators and developmental abilities : examining children with phonological disorders
The purposes of this study were to determine which perinatal risk variables arecorrelated with phonological disorders and to determine how preschoolers' developmental functioning is related to phonological impairment. Subjects were 101 low SES boys (n=46) and girls (n=55) randomly selected from a …
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A Qualitative Analysis of Parent Observations of Children Diagnosed with a Developmental Speech Delay
… to obtain and analyze the "personal stories" of mothers of children with had received a diagnosis of either developmental apraxia of speech (DAS) or developmental phonological disorder (DPD). Using a semi-structured interview, six mothers of children with DAS and five mothers of children with …
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Modellgeleitete Therapie phonologischer und phonetischer Störungen bei Aphasie : eine multiple Einzelfallstudie
Based on models of speech perception and production, different stages in phonological processing can be distinguished: phonetic, sublexical, and lexical levels of decoding and encoding respectively. In theory they can be selectively impaired. To address the specific level of phonological processing …
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Use of an integrated multimodal communication treatment with individuals with severe traumatic brain injury
… affected by severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) often live with co-occurring speech and language deficits, including apraxia of speech and dysarthria. Using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies (e.g., gesturing, writing, speech generating devices and applications) to …
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Clinical Outcomes Associated with Speech, Language and Swallowing Difficulties Post-Stroke – A Prospective Cohort Study
Background: Due to a lack of prospective research in South Africa's Speech-Language Therapy (SLT) private healthcare sector, this prospective cohort study investigated associations between speech, language, and swallowing conditions (i.e. dysarthria, apraxia of speech, aphasia, dysphagia), risk …
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An exploration of the occurrence of speech sound disorders in children with autism spectrum disorder aged 4;0 ? 7;11 years
… with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an area of study that has received a lot of attention, however there is limited research available on speech development in this population. There is especially limited research that has investigated speech sound disorders (SSDs) in children with ASD in …
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Untersuchung zur Kernsymptomatik bei Kindern mit einer kindlichen Sprechapraxie im Alter von 4-7 Jahren
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a speech sound disorder, whose etiology, definition and diagnostic criteria have been the subject of great controversy. The unsettled causality between the component of speech motor and linguistic aspects leads to difficulties in differential diagnosis of …
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Towards the development and validation of an isiXhosa tool for the assessment of apraxia speech in adults: A descriptive study
… isiXhosa speakers is a challenge for many Speech-Language Pathologists as there is a lack of appropriate assessment tools for this population. Current methods of adapting existing English tools are not appropriate as this does not allow the isiXhosa linguistic features to be assessed. …
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Facilitating multisyllabic productions with a hybrid treatment approach in three preschool-age children
… across target sets examined the effectiveness of a hybrid treatment approach, incorporating both linguistic and motor learning strategies, to facilitate multisyllabic productions in three preschool-age children who were at the single-word stage of development. Key to this design was the …
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An integrated multimodal intervention approach to support
… and alternative communication (AAC) is often viewed as a “last resort” for children with severe speech sound impairments, with AAC consideration only occurring after years of failed traditional speech therapy. Two main reasons this occurs is because (a) parents view AAC as “giving up” on …