CAS

Childhood apraxia of speech often occurs with comorbid language impairment and fine/gross motor deficits.

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Childhood apraxia of speech is due to muscle weakness.

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All children with CAS have language deficits

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The core deficits in CAS are in the areas of planning and programming for speech movement

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Deficits in CAS are associated with difficulties in the production of single sounds.

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One of the discriminative features that differentiate CAS from other speech sound disorders is...

• Inappropriate prosody, specifically lexical and phrasal stress

• Sounds substitutions

• Slower than typical speech rate

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Limb apraxia and feeding difficulties can co-occur with CAS

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CAS is always idiopathic (unknown cause).

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