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Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a rare neurological, sensorimotor speech sound disorder that has limited empirical evidence regarding its treatment. While there are several different treatment methods used to treat this disorder only one, integral stimulation therapy and a child specific modification of this (DTTC) have research evidence regarding effective treatment for CAS (and this evidence is in the form of case studies). Edeal and Gildersleeve-Neumann (2011) were interested in how different treatment intensity effects would affect the treatment outcome using integral training for children with CAS.
At issue here is the notion of "treatment intensity" which can be defined several ways. One way treatment intensity can be defined is the amount of practice that occurs in the treatment session; it is generally thought that more practice (or even more practice sessions) leads to a faster treatment effect. However since there are some instances where large amounts of practice may not be beneficial Edeal and Gildersleeve-Neumann believed that it would be important to define how much intensity is beneficial for treating CAS. The researchers' hypothesis was that greater frequencies of productions of speech targets would lead to increased motor performance and pronunciation in children diagnosed with CAS. In this study the authors were interested in determining whether more practice of speech targets (greater numbers of attempts and cues per session) in CAS participants would lead to increased performance in session, to a generalization effect to words not practiced in the treatment sessions, and if this training effect last post-treatment.
There were two participants in the study. Both were male boys. Both boys are identified in the study by pseudonyms in order to protect confidentiality. Jamie was six years and two months old at the beginning of the study. He was diagnosed with CAS at age 5 and had been adopted from China when...
Tips for Teaching or Working with a Child that has Childhood Apraxia of Speech According to Gretz (2005), research into effective methods for providing treatment to children with Apraxia is inadequate but in the professional literature a variety of techniques illustrated, including PROMPT method, Integral Stimulation, Adapted Cueing, Touch Cue, Melodic Intonation Therapy, Rate Control Therapy, etc., even though these therapeutic methods varies to some extent, they have shared characteristics that
Ease up a range of motion, and foster muscle control. They are said to be used before or together with actual speech production treatment. The evaluation found that these methods and procedures are questionable in matters concerning the implied cause of developmental speech sound disorders, the neurophysiologic differences between the limbs and oral musculature, the development of new theories of movement and movement control, and the sparseness of research
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