Apraxia is a speech disorder impacts people of various ages, including young children ages 0-7. There is a deficient amount of literature focused on elementary aged children. This paper will review various treatments used for young children before proposing intervention for elementary teachers to consider when working with a student with apraxia.
The early intervention of therapy is put in place, which usually focuses on repetition, sound sequencing, and movement patterns. The intervention approaches suggested by different specialists and researchers are profoundly dependent upon their interpretation of the disorder. Several approaches are quite motoric, dependent upon drill and focused on the achievement of articulatory gestures. Others incorporate linguistic components as well. Different treatment options for children have somewhat combined many of the same features and somewhat forming a framework for treatment. Because of the inconsistent nature of childhood apraxia of speech, there are many approaches to go about treating one child. Also, a typical child with apraxia of speech will produce inconsistent errors, be slow to progress, and may even return to earlier way of doing things during treatment. Prior to as well as frequently throughout treatment, assessments should be completed to make sure the …show more content…
McNeill, Gillon, and Dodd (2009) recommend the use of an integrated phonological approach which requires the use of phonological structure as the base for identifying sounds, letters, and words. Individuals may participate in game-like activities requiring them to break the sounds of a given word into individual letter sounds and to identify letter names relative to letter symbols and sounds. Letter blocks and pictures are often used as part of the treatment method related to the interests of the child. The integral stimulation techniques suggested by Edeal and Gildersleeve-Neumann (2011) described above also utilized pictures as part of
The early intervention of therapy is put in place, which usually focuses on repetition, sound sequencing, and movement patterns. The intervention approaches suggested by different specialists and researchers are profoundly dependent upon their interpretation of the disorder. Several approaches are quite motoric, dependent upon drill and focused on the achievement of articulatory gestures. Others incorporate linguistic components as well. Different treatment options for children have somewhat combined many of the same features and somewhat forming a framework for treatment. Because of the inconsistent nature of childhood apraxia of speech, there are many approaches to go about treating one child. Also, a typical child with apraxia of speech will produce inconsistent errors, be slow to progress, and may even return to earlier way of doing things during treatment. Prior to as well as frequently throughout treatment, assessments should be completed to make sure the …show more content…
McNeill, Gillon, and Dodd (2009) recommend the use of an integrated phonological approach which requires the use of phonological structure as the base for identifying sounds, letters, and words. Individuals may participate in game-like activities requiring them to break the sounds of a given word into individual letter sounds and to identify letter names relative to letter symbols and sounds. Letter blocks and pictures are often used as part of the treatment method related to the interests of the child. The integral stimulation techniques suggested by Edeal and Gildersleeve-Neumann (2011) described above also utilized pictures as part of