Who is sound production treatment for?
Sound Production Treatment (SPT) is one type of treatment of AOS. It was developed to improve the articulation of difficult-to-produce sounds (Wambaugh, West, & Doyle, 1998) and may be the most extensively studied treatment for apraxia of speech (AOS) to date.
What is speech production treatment?
SPT was designed to promote correct production of specific sounds targeted for intervention. Treatment combines modeling, repetition, minimal pair contrast, integral stimulation, articulatory placement cueing, and feedback.
Can acquired apraxia be cured?
In some cases of acquired apraxia, the condition resolves spontaneously. This is not the case with childhood apraxia of speech, which does not go away without treatment. There are various treatment approaches used for apraxia. How effective they are can vary from person to person.
How is adult apraxia treated?
Treatment for Apraxia of Speech Speech-language pathologists can work with you to improve how you say sounds and put sounds into words. Treatment will focus on getting your muscles to move correctly. You may need to teach your muscles to make sounds again.
What are the 3 types of apraxia?
Liepmann discussed three types of apraxia: melokinetic (or limb‐kinetic), ideomotor, and ideational.
What is integral stimulation?
Integral stimulation is based on principles of cognitive motor learning in building a hierarchical approach to clinical intervention. It is often considered the “watch me, listen, do as I do” approach, using multimodal cues to teach the client the new information.
What is the difference between aphasia and apraxia?
Both aphasia and apraxia are speech disorders, and both can result from brain injury most often to areas in the left side of the brain. However apraxia is different from aphasia in that it is not an impairment of linguistic capabilities but rather of the more motor aspects of speech production.
What is the Alexia?
Alexia means the inability to comprehend written material. The patients’ ability to write and spell is intact, but they are unable to spontaneously read, even what they have written seconds ago. Other features of language, such as speech comprehension, are usually intact.
What do we know about the effects of articulatory kinematic treatments?
Approximately two-thirds of the available evidence supporting the effects of AOS treatment comes from articulatory-kinematic approaches, with a much smaller percentage of studies representing the other types of treatments. We know much more about the expected effects of articulatory kinematic treatments than we do about other types of treatments.
What are the components of an articulatory-kinematic treatment investigation?
Typically, these investigations have employed a combination of repeated, motoric practice; modeling-repetition; integral stimulation; and articulatory cueing. Repeated, motoric practice has been a primary component of most articulatory-kinematic treatment investigations.
What is articulatory cueing?
A technique frequently incorporated into articulatory-kinematic treatments is articulatory cueing. This technique increases awareness and actualization of articulatory postures and/or movements and may take the form of phonetic placement or phonetic derivation.
What is the best treatment for oral and muscular phonetic targets?
Treatments such as SPT or Prompts for Restructuring Oral and Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT; Square et al., 2001) that have been studied repeatedly may have somewhat predictable outcomes.
