When teaching a new word, please don't segment!

Segmenting is when you teach each sound in the word separately. It creates robotic speech and does not help the child move between the sounds.

Apraxia therapy is all about movement.  Children with childhood apraxia of speech have difficulty...

What is Prosody of Speech? And why do children with CAS have difficulty with Prosody?

Prosody is: 

The rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech.  

• Stress: the emphasis on a syllable.
• Rhythm: the timing of the stress of syllables in a sentence.
• Intonation:  the way the pitch...

The focus of apraxia therapy is on the movement

I attended an advanced CAS workshop with Dr. Edythe Strand.  Dr. Strand is well known is the field of CAS treatment.  She created an evidenced based treatment program called DTTC, which stands for Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing. The...

Rapport is an extremely important part of Apraxia therapy

Therapists are always asking how I elicit a lot of repetitions in apraxia therapy.  Well, having a good rapport with the child is a good start.  Rapport is an extremely important part of apraxia therapy.  I believe in it so...

Chaining is a very effective cueing technique in Apraxia therapy.  It can be used to correct a distorted sound in the word as well as working on omission of initial and final sounds in the word.  Children with childhood apraxia of speech often simplify syllable structures which results...

Word repetition is important for acquiring new motor plans.  

How does the learning differ for children with a language based disorder versus a child with a motor speech disorder?

A child can have co-occurring speech sound disorders.  A child can have Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) and have some articulation errors or errors in phonological patterns.  A child can have CAS and have dysarthria.  The  assessment process will help determine the role and...

So.....I was a guest on a podcast! I engaged in an informative discussion with Cara Tambellini Danielson from @caraspeech  https://www.instagram.com/caraspeech/ on her podcast Early Education Matters with Cara Speech.  The topic of the podcast is Suspected Childhood Apraxia of...

 "My child / client has very few sounds.  Can I diagnosis childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) or suspected childhood apraxia of speech?" 

Here is a link to an instagram post that lists red flags for CAS, and a list of characteristics that are more discriminative of CAS, from...