Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia (DVD)

Question 1

What is DVD?

Answer 1

a speech motor planning disorder

• difficulty with sequencing articulators in a volitional manner IN THE ABSENCE OF PARALYSIS or weakness of oral musculature
• inflection and intonation patterns are off
• muscles are strong but disconnected with brain
• DYS=born with
• inconsistent errors
• groping behaviors (trying to find placement)

Question 2

DVD therapy consists of

Answer 2

HEIGHTENED cueing (auditory, visual, and tactile)

• work with 1 phoneme at a time
• help child understand misarticulation
• “how does the sound feel? “where is your tongue?”

Question 3

PROMPT

Answer 3

prompts for restructuring oral musculature therapy