From a scientist's point of view. Inside Edition's segment on our nonprofit and verbal apraxia was scheduled to air Nationwide on August 6th, 2001. Hear Apraxic Children at The Talking Page . Ask our Doctors. See what's going on for our meeting this month.
Apraxia is a neurological disorder which can affect the body, or speech, or both.
There are other apraxia and language sites and listservs on the internet that have been around for many years that answer some of this question mostly from the opinions of parents or Speech and Language Pathologists. W e believe the views of the medical professionals are critical not only for helping our children individually, but to raising awareness about, evaluating and treating neurological disorders of speech globally. Many of these same parents and professionals still do not know what apraxia is, so therefore do not know some of the simple warning signs. He believes people will respond the same way they did to Lyme Disease once they do know about apraxia. What nobody knew then, including Tanner's first pediatricians, or his first Speech and Language Pathologist, was that his lack of facial expressions was one of the warning signs of oral apraxia, a condition that CAN be diagnosed earlier than verbal apraxia.