lesion and language part 3

Question 1

what is apraxia?

Answer 1

Disorder in programming the speech musculature to produce the correct sounds of words in the proper sequence with the appropriate timing

not a perceptual problem

Question 2

What is the approach to diagnosing apraxia?

Answer 2

Compare lesions localization of patients with apraxia of speech to those without apraxia of speech

Question 3

What is the criteria for apraxia?

Answer 3

Effortful, tril and error, groping articulatory movements and attempts at self correction

dysprosody unrelieved by extended periods of normal rhythm stress and intonation

articulary inconsistency on repeated productions of the same utterance