Self-Administered Computer Therapy for Apraxia of Speech

Self-Administered Computer Therapy for Apraxia of Speech

Speech/language impairments after stroke are subcategorized into aphasia, dysarthria, and apraxia of speech (AOS). AOS is a disorder at the interface of language and speech production, involving breakdown in mapping from abstract linguistic representations to motor plans. Typical behaviors include speech errors, loss of automaticity and fluency, and altered timing parameters. In severe cases, p...

Self-Administered Computer Therapy for Apraxia of Speech: Two-Period Randomized Control Trial With Crossover.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There is currently little evidence on effective interventions for poststroke apraxia of speech. We report outcomes of a trial of self-administered computer therapy for apraxia of speech. METHODS Effects of speech intervention on naming and repetition of treated and untreated words were compared with those of a visuospatial sham program. The study used a parallel-group, ...

Developmental Apraxia of Speech

The Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale: a tool for diagnosis and description of apraxia of speech.

UNLABELLED The purpose of this report is to describe an initial version of the Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale (ASRS), a scale designed to quantify the presence or absence, relative frequency, and severity of characteristics frequently associated with apraxia of speech (AOS). In this paper we report intra-judge and inter-judge reliability, as well as indices of validity, for the ASRS which was c...

Apraxia of speech: an overview.

Apraxia of speech (AOS) is a motor speech disorder that can occur in the absence of aphasia or dysarthria. AOS has been the subject of some controversy since the disorder was first named and described by Darley and his Mayo Clinic colleagues in the 1960s. A recent revival of interest in AOS is due in part to the fact that it is often the first symptom of neurodegenerative diseases, such as prim...