How to explain apraxia of speech to your apraxia warrior & other children. Ily. 💙🫶💙🫶 #apraxia #apraxiaofspeech #childhoodapraxiaofspeech #speechapraxia | Fighting for my Voice: My life with Verbal Apraxia

Oculomotor apraxia is a type of apraxia that affects eye movements. There’s several different types of apraxia that affects different parts of a person’s anatomy. I hope this is very educational. 💙🥰🫶 #oculomotorapraxia #globalapraxia #apraxiaofspeech #dyspraxia #apraxia #apraxiaawareness | Fighting for my Voice: My life with Verbal Apraxia

THIS IS MISSING FROM THE CURRENT APRAXIA TREATMENT YOUR CHILD MAY OR MAY NOT BE GETTING! While we want the basis of speech therapy to be 3-5x a week in one on one sessions using a motor planning approach, we are also going to want to make sure the speech skills are carried over into multiple environments across different social situations and settings. The speech room is a very isolated setting. We want to be sure we help your kids and yourselves living with childhood apraxia of speech fully. 💙

Childhood apraxia of speech cannot be cured; however, we can make gains with our verbal speech in speech therapy utilizing a motor planning approach (this isn’t the WebMD, so let me break it down, hahaha). We need the treatment to offer repetition, one-on-one feedback, prompts, and more! Types include but are NOT limited to DTTC, ReST, Prompt, Kaufman, and MORE!!! If you have any questions, please comment below! But most importantly, parents and friends, please remember, you and your children ar

Childhood apraxia of speech is not a medical diagnosis. Even if this was, in fact, a medical diagnosis, the IDEA supports that your child will receive the scientific evidence-based treatment for their disability. If it affects your child's access to their academics OR academic environment (including but not limited to class participation, asking for help in class, engaging with peers, etc.), it is APPLICABLE for academics. Using accommodations, modifications, goals, services, and more can help u