The Source for Childhood Apraxia of Speech Robin Strode Downing, Catherine E. Chamberlain

Description Ages: 2-12Grades: Toddler-7 Evaluate and treat childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) using principles of motor learning with an emphasis on speech movements and syllable shapes. The authors have combined their years of practical experience with current research to give you a handbook on childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) that tells you how to: evaluate and differentially diagnose CAS treat CAS based on its unique characteristics develop basic communicationlearning skills such as joint attention and interaction, turn-taking, imitation, on-task behavior, and increasing vocalizations and verbalizations progress clients through eight levels of intervention to develop intelligble speech incorporate prosody and language goals into every level of therapy provide effective multisensory cues An eight-level hierarchy of speech tasks emphasizes speech movements and sound sequences based on principles of motor learning: Level 1: Stabilize existing vowels and consonant sounds Lev