Ming from Agents of Speech explains that childhood apraxia of speech is rare, a "subset of a subset of a subset" of speech delays. In 10 years of clinical work, she's treated only five or six cases. Many suspected diagnoses may actually need language-focused therapy instead.
October 4, 2024
About 10 years
"Five or six" cases
Apraxia of speech takes up a very small population of children who are speech and language delayed. It's a subset of a subset of a subset. And you have to be careful, because a lot of parents email me and say, oh, my therapist suspects. And the keyword is suspect. We don't know. Okay? And through my 10 years of doing therapy, I've only done, like, five or six cases of apraxia of speech. Maybe it's something else and I should focus on language therapy instead of doing a lot more research on apraxia. The diagnosis should be left to people who knows what they're doing.
