Apraxia of Speech

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The paper defines the neurological disorder apraxia of speech as the difficulty of a child to form sounds into words. This paper introduces and discusses apraxia of speech in children, some of its characteristics (delay in speech, feeding problems), diagnosis, treatment (repetitive speech exercises), and the future of children affected with the disease.

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"Apraxia of speech has certain telltale characteristics. Before a child is diagnosed with apraxia, and audiologist should be consulted to make sure the speech problem is not associated with a hearing problem. There are many signs in young and older children that they might have apraxia. They usually do not coo and babble when they are babies. They delay saying their first words, and when they do, they are missing sounds. They also only can say a few different consonants, and have a hard time combining sounds. The simplify words, and replace hard sounds with easier sounds. They may have feeding problems, too."

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