apraxia

However, many people with apraxia are no longer able to be independent.

Some individuals with apraxia may benefit from the use of a communication aid.

Children with apraxia must practice the strategies and techniques that they learn in order to improve.

Oral apraxia was related with an increase in age at the time of the stroke.

Eventually, doctors told her that the boy had apraxia.

A person with apraxia are unable to put together the correct muscle movements.

An uncommon, less understood result of stroke is a condition called apraxia.

Thus, gesture therapy has been found to be the most effective treatment for apraxia at the current time.

As a result of his studies, he divided apraxia into three types:

In addition to practice, feedback can be helpful to improve apraxia of speech.

Apraxia may be accompanied by a language disorder called aphasia.

The apraxia is always bilateral, that is, occurs for both left and right hands.

Apraxia of speech (now considered a separate disorder in itself)

Beginning in 1900, he began extensive work with a disorder he called apraxia.

Standardized language and intellectual tests should be done if apraxia of speech is suspected.

Problems with gestures and pantomimes were considered to be a category of apraxia.

Many assessments of apraxia have been published, however few are considered to be clinically appropriate.

Modern researchers question whether the term "apraxia" is appropriate to describe this condition.

No drug has been shown useful for treating apraxia.

The literature on apraxia is highly confusing and contradictory.

In some cases the apraxia just vanishes as fast as it appeared.

Mutations in this gene have been associated with ataxia-ocular apraxia.

Both manual and oral apraxia were related to increasing severity of stroke.

It is also possible for apraxia to be caused by lesions in other areas of the brain including the right hemisphere.

Apraxia is caused by damage to the brain.