Speech pathologists report an increasing number of patients diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech, a motor speech disorder in which children have difficulty saying basic sounds and words. As a ...

Apraxia is a neurological disorder that affects the mental processes involved in planning, task performance, and more. Ataxia is a neurological sign affecting muscle coordination and movement.

Constructional apraxia is a task-specific type of apraxia that causes difficulty drawing or copying images and constructing things. This is due to impairments of executive functions and perceptual and ...

In this issue, Raca et al 1 present two cases of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) arising from microdeletions of chromosome 16p11.2. They propose that comprehensive phenotypic profiling may assist in ...

Short stuff: Health roundup Recent reports indicate an increase in the number of kids diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), a motor speech disorder in which children have difficulty saying ...