I. The Attention Grabber: What would you do if you could not properly express yourself verbally? Picture this, you can understand what everyone else is saying, but the majority of people could not understand the words coming out of your mouth. Unfortunately, there are people who are either born or later in life encounter an illness or injury that causes them to be unable to speak fluently.
II. The Relevance: Please listen carefully because you never know how the information I am about to deliver to you may help you currently or in the future. Some of you may bear a child or have a loved-one face this problem.
III. The Credibility: In 2012 my son was born with unforeseen health problems. One issue is that he is partially hearing impaired and as he begin to develop speech patterns, I noticed
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Define childhood apraxia and causes.
A. Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder in which a child with CAS has trouble saying what he or she wants to say correctly and consistently. It is not due to paralysis of muscles in the face, tongue, lips, or jaw. Instead, their brains have problems planning the movement of the lips, jaw, and tongue to create sounds, syllables, and words (Citation #1 - Dunkelberger).
B. There are two types of apraxia: acquired apraxia of speech and developmental apraxia of speech.
1. Acquired apraxia of speech can affect a person at any age due to a brain injury, stroke, tumor, or other illness affecting the brain.
2. Developmental apraxia of speech (DAS) occurs in children and is present at birth. It appears to affect boys more than girls. The cause or causes are still unknown. (Citation#2 - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders). I. Diagnosis and Treatment
A. There is no one “program” that is right for every child with apraxia and commercial products and programs can be tools for use in therapy by a speech-language pathologist who understands the nature of apraxia and how to treat it (Citation#3 Gertz,
Around 75% of individuals develop limb-onset ALS, with initial involvement occurs in the upper and lower extremities. The other 25% develop bulbar-onset ALS, with initial involvement occurring in the bulbar muscles. The bulbar muscles are considered to be the muscles of the mouth and throat that are responsible for speech and swallowing. Bulbar-onset ALS is more common in middle-aged women with the prevalent beginning stage symptoms being difficulty swallowing, chewing and
It is a change that exposes a child to a completely different form of speech from the one spoken
Auditory brainstem responses to complex sounds (cABRs) • Stimuli in the literature: • Vowels (both synthetic & natural) • CV syllables (synthetic, natural, & hybrid) • Words (ex: car, rose, chair) • Phrases (ex: chicken pot pie) • Environmental sounds • Non-speech vocal sounds (ex: a baby’s cry • Musical sounds and melodies Clinical Applications: The cABR is replicable across test sessions and reliably measured under passive conditions using a small number of electrodes. • Identify individuals likely to benefit from auditory training. • Assessment and documentation of treatment outcomes.
Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors. All children develop in physical, social, educational aspects of development. But there are several personal factors which influences children and young people’s development in one or more aspects. This includes: Health conditions, physical disability, allergies and nutrition, sensory impairment, exercise, Addiction, gender. Health conditions: Young children may not have very strong immune system, making them prone to catch infections and illness like cough, cold, fever, etc. very quickly.
It is important for speech-language pathologists to select instruments that are psychometrically sound for the assessment (Dollaghan, 2004). Comprehensive assessment includes the case history, oral-motor assessment, hearing screening, and oral mechanism assessment (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, n.d.b). Oral/mechanism examination is important for differentiation of dysarthria and other speech sound disorders from CAS. It can also assist in identifying apraxia of speech and oral apraxia, which may or
It's rude and I could've told him about Apraxia instead. When I lash out after struggling to communicate, others do not want to further talk to me and they certainly couldn't care less about why I speak the way I
Phonological awareness (PA) is generically defined as the conscious ability to break words into individual sounds and manipulate these sounds. PA abilities have been shown to affect early literacy skills in normal hearing children and deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children alike. Even though advanced cochlear implant (CI) and hearing aid (HA) technology is making tremendous strides for the DHH community, these hearing devices still cannot completely restore normal hearing or fully represent all aspects of normal speech sounds. Therefore, children within this population are potentially at a higher risk for speech disorders, delays, and language difficulties. If research studies can lead to a better understanding of how PA develops in young children with CIs or HAs, then educators and Speech Language Pathologists (SLP) will be able to identify which children are at a higher risk for literacy delays later in life; consequently, preventing these delays by facilitating early development of PA skills.
Specific Purpose: To entertain and inspire my audience by honoring a special professor and describing the impact she has had on my life. Central Idea: Tina Hearne the Biology professor influenced many aspects of my life by showing examples of warmth, courage, and concern for others. Introduction 1. A. (Attention-getter)
Some children may have conditions such as Dyslexia, ADHD, Downs Syndrome or Autism, which will cause their communication to be different. They may find it hard to interpret what an adult is asking them to do or they may not be able to communicate what they want to say in a way for an adult to understand them. Hearing and Physical impairments will also have an effect on communication. Hearing impairments in a child or adult will create a barrier in communication where the listener will have to use a different form of communication such as sign language or using pictures and gestures. Physical impairments would include disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy or Spina Bifida in the child or adult.
General Purpose: To persuade my audience to believe that children being placed in adult prisons is wrong. Specific Purpose: They number of children being housed in prisons is growing each day. Central Idea: In most cases, more than not children who are tried as adults are being placed in adult facilities are being denied they’re right to an education and are being placed in dangerous situations, these things can lead to a permenant idea of that being where they belong as well as a higher chance of reconviction. Organizational Pattern: Problem prevention Speech Title Introduction I. Are you aware that over 10,000 children are placed in adult correctional facilities, jails and prisons everyday in America.
INTRODUCTION: Voice articulation and language are the major elements of human speech production. When a disorder related to any of these elements is present, the ability to communicate may be impaired. Voice is the elements of the speech that provides the speaker with the vibratory signal upon which speech is carried. Regarded as magical and mystical in ancient times, today the production of voice is viewed as both powerful communication tools and a artistic medium.
General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: My audience will learn the importance of social media in today’s world, from its history to the many uses it delivers. Thesis Statement: I would like to address three facets social media provides: first, the history of social media; second, the uses of social media; and third, how social media have influenced our lives.
This research study article “Dialect Awareness and Lexical Comprehension of Mainstream American English in African American English-Speaking Children” written and conducted by Jan Edwards, Megan Gross, Jianshen Chen, Maryellen C. MacDonald, David Kaplan, Megan Brown, and Mark S. Seidenberg examines the sociocultural conditions of AAE. The writers hypothesize that children who speak AAE have trouble comprehending words that are not commonly present in the dialect. The purpose of the study is to promote dialectal awareness and dialectal comprehension. The article’s research team is from the University of Wisconsin Madison, which holds one off the nations top Speech Language Pathology programs.
Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a childhood neurological speech sound disorder which is characterized by impairment of the consistency and precision of movements underlying speech with the main impairment consisting of programming and/or planning spatiotemporal aspects of movement sequences resulting in speech sound prosody and production errors (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2007). CAS is present in pediatric populations as contrasted with Apraxia of Speech (AOS) which is an adult diagnosis. Childhood apraxia of speech is considered controversial by some researchers. Shriberg (n.d.) argues that although the diagnostic term is undoubtedly accurate, it has not yet been backed up by sufficient or compelling research
No matter the age, all people has appreciated or currently enjoy cartoon television shows from time to time. Some cartoons will leave you with a feeling of motivation, some will provide you with life lessons, and some people enjoy watching and listening to the phrases of the silliest characters that the animations provide. As a child, I personally grew up with a designated television period in which I spent the majority of my time watching my favorite animated shows. For the most part, cartoons can be a positive experience for children, but any animated television characters with speech sound disorders could negatively affect a child’s speech. When it comes to cartoon voices, most characters have high pitched voices that attract and keep