Causes of Apraxia of speech in Childhood

 The apraxia of speech is a disorder which causes in the brain and has difficulty to organize the complex oral moments.

The sound creation and syllables to word, then words to phrase formation failure are the result of Apraxia speech disorder. Nothing is common in all kinds of speech disorders, therefore here no one can blame the weakness of muscles.

The reason behind each disorder varies according to the individual genetics and human body structure. However, society sees these differently-abled children with sympathy.

A good speech therapist can help children and parents to throw out this problem and give them the confidence to do more in life with their skills.

This speech disorder is a motor speech disorder and it slows down the messages to the brain as well as the response to the muscles of the mouth of the child from the brain also delays.

The ability of speech becomes minimal and this cannot be cured completely, instead, there can be more improvement if the child gets the best treatment. 

In many cases, the cause is unknown and there might be many other genetic reasons.

The main signs for the speech disorder are:

• Contrary errors on consonants and vowels in repeated productions of syllables or words or phrases.

• Difficulty producing longer, more complex words and phrases.

• Unsuitable intonation and stress in word or phrase production.

Some other characteristics of apraxia speech disorders include:

• Delay in the development of the child's first words and sounds.

• Decreased sound inventory.

• Multiple or unusual sound errors.

• Vowel sound errors.

• Excessive movements of the mouth 

• Attempting to position the mouth for sound production.

• Frequent regression in the number of words produced.

• Variation in the overall performance of automatic speech versus voluntary speech and mostly, voluntary speech is more affected by apraxia of speech.

• Mistakes in the sequence of the order of sounds produced.

These problems can be identified and strat treatment from infancy can make a massive change. The Best speech therapy center in Umm al Quwain has experts to solve speech disorders and learning difficulties.  The treatment methods can last for many years and many children benefit from this treatment process.