Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Has your child’s Speech-language Pathologist used the term Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) before and you weren’t sure what they were talking about? CAS is a speech disorder that can appear like a variety of different speech sound disorders, which means differential diagnosis is a very important first step in the initiation of treatment. Some characteristics your speech-language pathologist may look for in order to accurately diagnose CAS are the following: -A limited consonant and vowel repertoire. -Minimal variation between different vowel sounds. -Vowel errors and distortions. -Inconsistent errors and idiosyncratic error patterns. -Reduced rate or accuracy with diadochokinetic tasks. -Oral groping behaviors. -Prosodic differences (reduced rate, excess or equal stress, “choppy” words and syllables, monotone speech). -Increased errors with