Nancy spoke with Carrie Clark, founder of the Speech & Language Kids website and podcast, about childhood apraxia of speech. Some of the topics they covered included:

• The successive approximations approach for apraxia treatment
• How much therapy children with CAS need
• The importance of home practice for childhood apraxia of speech treatment
• How to choose words to work on
• Why traditional speech therapy methods don’t work for children with CAS (and what to do instead)
• Therapy sessions for children at the single-word level
• Therapy for older children with apraxia
• When to work on prosody with children with apraxia
• How augmentative/alternative communication plays into therapy

About Speech and Language Kids:

Speech and Language kids was founded by Carrie Clark, a speech therapist located in Columbia, Missouri. Her site offers lots of speech activities and breaks down the current research into easy-to-follow plans.