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Elizabeth Murray; Shelley Velleman; Jonathan L. Preston; Robert Heard; Akhila Shibu; Patricia McCabe – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The current standard for clinical diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is expert clinician judgment. The psychometric properties of this standard are not well understood; however, they are important for improving clinical diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which experts agree on the clinical…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments, Preschool Children, Adolescents
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Barbara A. Lewis; Gabrielle J. Miller; Sudha K. Iyengar; Catherine Stein; Penelope Benchek – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The study's primary aims were to describe the long-term speech outcomes for adolescents and young adults with a history of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and to examine the association of persistent speech sound errors with measures of literacy skills, phonological processing, motor speech production, and parent report of early motor…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments, Longitudinal Studies, Preschool Children
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Aravind K. Namasivayam; Hyunji Shin; Rosane Nisenbaum; Margit Pukonen; Pascal van Lieshout – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate child- and intervention-level factors that predict improvements in functional communication outcomes in children with motor-based speech sound disorders. Method: Eighty-five preschool-age children with childhood apraxia of speech (n = 37) and speech motor delay (n = 48) participated.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Motor Development, Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments
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Nolte, Heike; Solomons, Regan; Springer, Priscilla; Kidd, Martin; Africa, Eileen – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) often present motor co-ordination difficulties accompanying their speech and sound delays. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a paired versus a small group gross motor intervention on selected pre-school children, pre-identified with CAS. Children pre-identified with…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Intervention, Preschool Children, Speech Impairments
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Shriberg, Lawrence D.; Paul, Rhea; Black, Lois M.; van Santen, Jan P. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
In a sample of 46 children aged 4-7 years with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and intelligible speech, there was no statistical support for the hypothesis of concomitant Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS). Perceptual and acoustic measures of participants' speech, prosody, and voice were compared with data from 40 typically-developing children, 13…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Autism, Preschool Children, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Planty, Michael; Hussar, William; Snyder, Thomas; Kena, Grace; KewalRamani, Angelina; Kemp, Jana; Bianco, Kevin; Dinkes, Rachel – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
"The Condition of Education" is a congressionally mandated report that provides an annual portrait of education in the United States. This document includes information from "The Condition of Education 2009" about children and youth with disabilities. The number and percentage of children and youth receiving special education…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Disabilities, Special Education, Learning Disabilities