{"id":284,"date":"2013-07-19T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T03:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/speechchick.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2013-08-14T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T22:41:47","slug":"a-systematic-approach-to-viewing-and-treating-apraxia-of-speech-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"A Systematic Approach to Viewing and Treating Apraxia of Speech: Part One- Overview of the Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part One: Overview of the Approach<\/span><\/p>\n

The Systematic Approach for treating apraxia of speech is focused on 6 main points:<\/b><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Children with apraxia of speech are missing their speech maps<\/i>.\u00a0 They must rely simply on muscle memory to remember and repeat speech movements.<\/b><\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0 Therapy may only need to target movement patterns <\/i>(2 pure speech sounds with the movement in-between) which may generalize to all words, phrases, sentences, etc.<\/b><\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0 You need to use a sustained phonatory model<\/i> to teach the movement between two pure speech sounds.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a04.\u00a0 You need to consider which sounds are easier to produce with sustained phonation when choosing therapy targets<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/b>5.\u00a0 Don\u2019t forget to target ALL possible movement patterns, specifically all consonant-consonant<\/i> movement patterns – as these often get overlooked.\u00a0 Targeting all movement patterns will help speech connect from one word to the next and will make it sound fluid and natural and will aid in prosody control.<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a06.\u00a0 Each therapy session should consist of a drill portion<\/i> and a play portion<\/i>.\u00a0 The drill portion should focus on perfecting the production of specific sounds (i.e. \/m\/) in specific movement patterns (i.e. consonant-consonant).\u00a0 The play portion should focus on using some or all of the specific sounds or movement patterns targeted in a functional way (i.e. words, phrases, sentences, etc.).<\/b><\/p>\n

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Have questions about this systematic approach??? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

FOLLOW ME along my 7 post journey which will describe my approach in great detail along with my thinking process, trial runs and research on individual apraxia clients, progress and success of these clients, and more. \u00a0Remember to add comments and thoughts so that we can work together to conquer apraxia of speech!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part One: Overview of the Approach The Systematic Approach for treating apraxia of speech is focused on 6 main points: 1.\u00a0 Children with apraxia of speech are missing their speech maps.\u00a0 They must rely simply on muscle memory to remember and repeat speech movements. 2.\u00a0 Therapy may only need to target movement patterns (2 pure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,34],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apraxia-of-speech","tag-speech-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/speechchick.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Apraxia-pic-1.png?fit=326%2C318&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}