The age at which apraxia is diagnosed is between the ages of 2 to 3 years of age.
However apraxia is sometimes not diagnosed until the child is 4 to 5 years old.
Apraxia is not a form of autism although they frequently occur together.
Autism and Childhood Apraxia are developmental disorders that have distinct criteria and different epidemiology.
Although a common genetic background as well as overlapping the clinical features between Apraxia and Autism have been recently reported.
Apraxia is a speech sound disorder that affects the brain pathways responsible for planning the movement sequences involved in speech production.
In some cases, kids with apraxia are misdiagnosed with ASD, as their articulatory and phonological abilities can be severe.
In other cases, children with phonological difficulties are misdiagnosed with ASD when in fact, they are not on the autism spectrum.
With appropriate goals and intervention, parents of children with apraxia as the primary diagnosis should expect progress in their child's use of intelligible words within a three-month period.
(Children with apraxia plus other complex challenges likely will have more limited progress.)
Children with Apraxia won't simply outgrow the condition, but over time and with regular (and often intensive) speech therapy, their speech is likely to improve.
Abnormalities in the FOXP2 gene appear to increase the risk of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and other speech and language disorders.
The FOXP2 gene may be involved in how certain nerves and pathways in the brain develop.
Apraxia of speech (AOS)—also known as acquired apraxia of speech, verbal apraxia, or childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) when diagnosed in children—is a speech sound disorder.
Someone with AOS has trouble saying what he or she wants to say correctly and consistently.
Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that makes it hard to speak.
This disorder can make saying the right sounds and words very difficult.
Speech-language pathologists can help the child with apraxia.
Apraxia can result problems getting wants and needs met.
This can make the child and family frustrated.
Apraxia can also make it hard for children to be independent, make friends, or play with other children.
Children with apraxia are at risk for problems with reading and writing.
Apraxia results from dysfunction of the cerebral hemispheres of your brain, especially the parietal lobe (which his involved with movement coordination and processing sensations such as taste, hearing, and touch), and can arise from many diseases or damage to the brain.
When it's caused by a stroke, apraxia of speech typically does not worsen and may get better over time.
But, apraxia of speech often is ignored as a distinct entity that can evolve into a neurologic disorder, causing difficulty with eye movement, using the limbs, walking and falling that worsens as time passes.