Childhood Apraxia of Speech - WHAT is it?

My son is 6yo and in Kindergarten, he was diagnosed with CAS at 3.5yo and has been making a ton progress in the last few years of speech therapy! Thanks greatly to a fantastic Early Childhood SLP in Preschool/PreK and has a new fantastic SLP now that he is in full day school. They have helped him tremendously and we can not thank them enough! He still has a long way to go, but the little man is determined and works so hard!

My four year old has been dx with CAS since she was about 2 and a half - but, our insurance doesn't cover it, so we can only do one speech therapy a week, with me back up for the rest of the time she needs. Our therapist isn't a specialist, but she probably could be. I work hard with my daughter each week and she has gone from being mostly non-verbal (typical CAS sounds of "eh eh eh" for everything and a few signs), to able to speak in full sentences that are much more intelligible. Its a long road and one that it's easy to feel alone on...

Thank you so much for this video. My granddaughter was just diagnosed with this at 2.5. She’s had several speech evals over the past 6 months and she’s learning ASL. I’ve been so anxious and concerned about her possible diagnosis of CAS. You’ve put me at ease. She starts speech for CAS in about 2 weeks and I’m very hopeful. She has a good relationship with her speech therapist which helps. I truly believe she’ll be fine and overcome this, but it’s very emotional for everyone.

I have asked my 5 year old son's SLP to evaluate him for CAS. He is also autistic and has no words. He had a head injury at 6 weeks of age while he was still with his biological parents and his physiatrist said he is at risk for CAS due to intrauterine drug exposure.

Thank you so so so much for making these videos. I cannot express just how much you’ve saved my ass. I am an English teacher here in japan and teaching toddlers for me kinda feels like I’m teaching kids how to communicate for the first time and it scares me. Anyway, thanks for being awesome! Much love, Clydell ♥️

I'm definitely subscribing. Like your chanel very informative and practical too🌈❤️

Thanks for sharing. So clearly explained!

NOT a lot of therapists or Dr know about this! I got shut out because he was normal in every other aspect! The therapist laughed one time as to why he didn't know what was wrong with my son! Actually watched a YouTube video from some famous person who turned me on to what was wrong with him.

Oy. My oldest has it (age 6). He doesn't talk perfectly now, but after years of therapy he never STOPS talking, which is something we thought we would never see! The fact that most children just learn to speak naturally is miraculous to me. Unfortunately, I feel like we will be going through this battle again with our youngest who is 2 and doesn't have words yet. This time we do not have money for therapy this time, so hoping I can use Teachers Pay Teachers for me to try and imitate the therapy sessions I sat through with my oldest. (Irony is my hubby is a physical therapist, if only he could just trade services with a SLP). Do you have any favorite resources on there for toddlers? Would buying Kaufman cards be too boring?

My son is 25 months old and has been seeing a speech therapist through the early intervention program in our state for the past 4 months. She recently told me that she thinks he has apraxia, but I don't see some of the things you mentioned in your video so I'm not sure if the therapist is right. I'm hopeful that it isn't apraxia and he's just a late talker. He doesn't mind imitating sounds and is very motivated to try all the time and loves speech therapy. He never gets the consonant wrong but he has difficulty with some vowel sounds, and he usually doesn't make different or inconsistent errors. He tries to imitate full words sometimes and often sounds quite accurate to me. The slp said she notices "groping" and he has difficulty saying more than the first sound or syllable of the word in speech therapy, but when he's alone with me he attempts to say full words or a modified version that he makes up himself (example: wawa for water) I know apraxia isn't usually diagnosed until age 3 so I will wait and hope things get better, and if not then get a referral to a specialist for diagnosis Your videos are very helpful

I know this is an older post and thread so hoping someone will see this. But for anyone that is having insurance issues, I am currently utilizing our county school district office to have an occupational therapist come in and work with my 2 yr old. They think she may have apraxia and they have had two different speech therapists come out and assess her at different times. But it is all free through them. It's worth people knowing about to check into their county school district to see if a similar program is available.

Hi. I am an SLPA and have a student who appears to have apraxia. My supervisor saw him for 20 min and ruled it out because he was not groping his mouth. Can a child have apraxia without groping of the mouth?

Is apraxia related to dyslexia or dispraxia? And if so is it genetic? I ask as I am dyslexic and dispraxic. Thanks

I have to wait over a year to get my daughter into see a behavioral specialist here in TX. In Austin tx and the surrounding area there are only 2 ...the others waiting list starts 1 1/2 year wait . What's the good of early intervention when by the time you see someone it's not early intervention anymore . I'm so frustrated with this .

my brother has this and at 28 his speech is still pretty bad (I question 90s therapy techniques), when it was apparent my son had speech delays my heart broke thinking he would struggle the same as my bother. Thankfully that is not the case, but apraxia is still close to mt heart and a big reason I am studying to be a speech pathologist

I am trying to learn my r and I have childhood apraxia of speech

Are there any books that are particular suited for Apraxia children? Thank you!

SLP has mentioned apraxia for 18 month old. He has zero words. He HAS mimicked before, correctly in the past, but doesn’t even try as of late.

Where in California do you practice? My sister is looking for a place for her son, my nephew

I’m 42 stroke patient after my 2 strokes I lost my voice. I have aphasia and apraxia now. I use back part my tongue no problem but my front no