Verbal dyspraxia
Dyspraxia is a neurological (brain) disorder in which messages from the brain to the muscles are disrupted. It can affect many different functions such as writing, dressing, speaking, eating or skipping. Dyspraxia is usually referred to as a motor planning and execution disorder.
Treatment
At Therapy Success we use both Tomatis® and MNRI® Programs to assist and often iliminate Dyspraxia
Different types of dyspraxia
Dyspraxia
Dyspraxia can develop through damage to the brain from an accident, stroke or illness. Dyspraxia may also develop in young children when there is no brain injury or no obvious cause.
Oral dyspraxia
Children with oral dyspraxia usually have no problems with automatic oral movements such as licking an ice cream, but they have great difficulty with doing oral movements on demand, for example, poking out their tongue when you ask them to.
Verbal dyspraxia
Verbal dyspraxia is also a neurological disorder and affects the production of speech. There is no actual damage to the nerves or muscles used in speech, but the child cannot voluntarily coordinate their muscles to produce the right speech sounds or words. Verbal dyspraxia can develop after an injury to the brain. A speech pathologist can diagnose and help treat verbal dyspraxia.
Symptoms of verbal dyspraxia
These depend on the severity of the problem. For instance a child may:
•Not be able to speak or gesture at all
•Get stuck on a sound or words and say it over and over again when trying to say something different. This is called perseveration.
•Have difficulty making sounds or repeating sequences of sounds or words
•Have difficulty sustaining normal intonation patterns
•Have a very limited, automatic vocabulary
•Be slower speaking, use more pauses and fewer words
•Make searching movements with their lips and tongue when trying to say a sound.
