National Apraxia Awareness Day

Today is National Apraxia Awareness Day.  Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder where children struggle with production of sounds, syllables, and words. This is not because of muscle weakness, rather the brain has difficulties planning movements of body parts such as the lips, jaw, or tongue, used for speech. With CAS, children know what exactly what they want to say, but their brain has trouble planning and coordinating the muscle movements needed to say the sounds and words.  Apraxia -KIDS has a wonderful list of ways you can get involved and spread awareness.  

If you would like to read more about CAS, these are some great websites to check out:

http://testyyettrying.blogspot.com/p/learn-more.html

http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/ChildhoodApraxia/

http://www.apraxia-kids.org