Long-Term Outcomes for Individuals With Childhood Apraxia of Speech

CONCLUSIONS: Children with CAS are at risk for persistent speech sound errors into adulthood. For children showing limited progress with more traditional speech therapy, alternative interventions should be explored. Individuals with persistent speech sound errors are more likely to have a history of early motor deficits. Regardless of persistence, participants with CAS demonstrated ongoing weaknesses in literacy, phonological processing skills, and complex speech production tasks.PMID:37734154 | DOI:10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00647

Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - September 21, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Barbara A Lewis Gabrielle J Miller Sudha K Iyengar Catherine Stein Penelope Benchek Source Type: research