This week’s podcast focused on the assessment and intervention of apraxia of speech. The first step of an apraxia of speech assessment is a screening. During the screening process the individuals’ comorbid language, cognitive communication and swallowing deficits are observed and a hearing screening is done to rule out the presence of a hearing deficit contributing to apraxia and its possible effects on the results. After that the individual is referred to a comprehensive assessment of apraxia of speech. The assessment consists of a case history, OSME, assessment of voice and resonance as well as an assessment of motor speech planning skills.

There are a number of approaches to intervention of apraxia of speech, these include articulatory kinematic, rate and/or rhythm, alternative/augmentative communication (AAC),reorganization. There are a ...