Adult Apraxia Therapy

Apraxia in Adults (a.k.a. apraxia of speech, verbal apraxia, dyspraxia) : In adults, apraxia is a motor speech disorder that results from damage to the parts of the nervous system that control speech.

The person experiences difficulty sequencing the sounds in syllables and words. Severity of the disorder is related to the degree of damage to the nervous system.

Like children, the adult with apraxia will know what they wish to say and the individual muscles will have normal strength but the person’s brain will have difficulty coordinating the muscle movements necessary and they may say something completely different, even nonsensical.

For example, a person may try to say “kitchen”, but it may come out “bipem”. The person will recognize the error and trying again, sometimes getting it right, but sometimes saying something else entirely.

This can become frustrating for the person with apraxia.

At Heaman Communication Services we understand how difficult it can be dealing with apraxia and build our therapy with that in mind.

Contact us so that our speech therapists can help you overcome apraxia.