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Understanding Childhood Apraxia

By Becky Spivey, M.Ed. 

This article is reprinted with permission of Super Duper Publications®.

Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a very specific motor speech disorder. Children with this diagnosis have difficulty planning and consistently producing sequences of speech movements using their tongue, lips, jaw, and palate. These difficulties limit a listener's understanding of the child's speech and prevent the child from producing intelligible speech. A child with a diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech specifically experiences problems in programming and planning his/her speech movements.

Speech Plans

When we try to communicate, an idea forms in our brain as to what we want to say. Our brain thinks of words for our messages and puts them in the correct order using correct grammar. This information then translates into a series of highly coordinated movements of the articulators-the lips, jaw, tongue, and soft palate. The brain tells the muscles that control the articulators the exact order and timing of the movements to produce intelligible speech. Children with apraxia of speech may not be able to accurately and consistently produce speech motor plans. This may be due to neurological impairments or developmental disabilities.

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A FUN Halloween Activity and Snack!

A great activity that is SO easy and SO much fun!

Pour a small amount of milk in several containers. Add food coloring to each container. With a new paint brush have the children paint a face onto a piece of white bread. Toast the bread. When the bread is done the monster face will glow! Butter and enjoy!

Make Healthy Eating Fun For Kids!

Families That Cook Together Eat Together

By Kia Robertson 

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

Putting together healthy well balanced meals and eating as a family is a pretty big challenge for a lot of families these days with our full schedules and busy lives! It can sometimes feel too hard or overwhelming especially when we strive for perfection. I think perfection gets in the way of progress...I like to look at healthy eating as a series of baby steps and choices that eventually become habit.