|
Home Page
815-541-1857 1706 Superior Ave, Savanna, IL 61074 1356 NW Boca Raton Blvd, Boca Raton, FL 33432 Juice Plus URL:
|
Speech Issues page has information regarding how to facilitate various articulation abilities and characteristics of apraxia. Here's my gesture/phoneme list: "S" trace the letter 's' (like a snake) with pointer finger in the air "B" tap whole hand on cheek several times "P" tap pointer finger on lip corner "E" big smile showing teeth and pulling lip corner with finger "R" show arm muscles and big smile showing teeth "K" large mouth opening with pointer finger tapping by ear (or fingers in mouth to prevent stating 't') "G"
large mouth opening with pointer finger tapping by ear "F" pointer finger pressing inward on lower lip "TH" stick tongue out between teeth place thumb between pointer and middle fingers "NY" touch knee "MORE" push lips together with hand and phonate 'm' and then touch fingers together for ‘more’ sign language motion "ALL DONE" wave hands in front of body while saying 'all done' in a singing like tone "T" or "D" pointer finger touches teeth "M" push lips together with three fingers "L" wave hand like brushing the ceiling (or hold jaw for stabilization) "N" two fingers to chin “SH” make the “be quiet” motion with index finger up to lips “CH” same as “SH” but say “ch, ch, ch” and tap index finger against lips
What's the difference between apraxia and articulation and phonological disorders?
People with apraxia: 1. if they do have a strength it is that they can imitate the sounds of the alphabet and have a sound for one word but not have that same sound in other words. 2. usually omit the beginning consonant sound. 3. may have vowel fidelity challenges and only have the "schwa" sound that sounds like /uh/ and maybe one or two other correct sounding vowels. 4. usually can repeat a word or a phrase that we say like it is one word, but can't say it without hearing it first. 5. will have one word utterances and expect the listener to fill in the blanks and then graduate to a limited number of automatic phrases.
Phonological disorders can look like an apraxic disorder, but: 1. Phonological disorders have a certain number of similar errors. Example: uses /t/ and /d/ instead of /k/ and /g/, omits all /s/ sounds, or consistently substitutes one sound for another (but that sounds is consistently the one used).
Articulation disorders can look like an apraxic disorder, but: 1. Articulation disorders have a certain distortion (like with /r/) or a certain misarticulation (like /w/ for /r/).
|
|