Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a developmental disorder in which the precision and temporal coordination of the movements required for speech are impaired, despite normal neuromuscular function.

Figure 1: Seven pedigrees with EAOH linked to the short arm of chromosome 9. The 2.2-kb APTX mRNA is expressed ubiquitously , and at 57% of the normal level in lymphoblastoid cell lines from a patient ...

Speech pathologists report an increasing number of patients diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech, a motor speech disorder in which children have difficulty saying basic sounds and words. As a ...

Apraxia of Speech is a form of oral motor speech disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate conscious speech plans into motor plans. A person may therefore be aware of the words they ...

It may start with a simple word you can't pronounce. Your tongue and lips stumble, and gibberish comes out. Misspeaking might draw a chuckle from family and friends. But, then, it keeps happening.

You can hear Hari Srinivasan’s confident voice in his academic research papers, his Daily Californian newspaper articles and in his poetry and essays. But in person, you’re not likely to hear him ...

A genomic architectural discovery made deep inside neurons of the brain's movement control center reveals how DNA packaging may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases. St. Jude Children's Research ...

Apraxia of speech is an acquired motor speech disorder that prevents a person from being able to use motor planning to translate words they plan to say into actual speech. The condition occurs as a ...