Childhood apraxia of speech is marked by an increase in
errors on sound classes involving more complex oral gestures. Based on simple
to complex oral gestures (for example, number of syllables, presence of
consonant clusters) rank order the following words: street, butterfly, big,
spreads, fig, caterpillar, no, baseball.
Children with CAS could have
difficulty identifying rhymes and syllables. Which area of development do these
tasks represent? Based on difficulties with rhyming and syllabification, are
there other problems for which these children might be at risk?
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