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Apraxia
Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that is a result of left hemisphere damage. As the patient speaks you will notice he or she will struggle to position the tongue and lips correctly. His or her speech attempts may be unintelligible or they may repeat the same word or phrase in attempt to form the correct word. An Apraxic patient's speech errors may include: substituting of one sound for another sound, prosody, omitting sounds, difficulty initiating speech, making several attempts to produce sounds or words, (Words longer in length may have more errors), the ability to read better than name, adding sounds to words and articulation errors. The patient’s resonance, respiration, phonation, pitch and loudness are normal.
Lessons Include:
Blends Initial and Final Position
Consonant Vowel Words
Consonant Vowel Consonant Words
Two Syllable Words
Three Syllable Words
Compound Words
Phrases
Questions
Sentences
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