A comparison of two treatments for childhood apraxia of speech: methods and treatment protocol for a parallel group randomised control trial

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A comparison of two treatments for childhood apraxia of speech: methods and treatment protocol for a parallel group randomised control trial

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Abstract Background Childhood Apraxia of Speech is an impairment of speech motor planning that manifests as difficulty producing the sounds (articulation) and melody (prosody) of speech. These difficulties may persist through life and are detrimental to academic, social, and vocational development. A number of published single subject and case series studies of speech treatments are available. There are currently no randomised control trials or other well designed group trials available to gu...

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2012-08-01

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Murray Elizabeth / McCabe Patricia / Ballard Kirrie J

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BMC Pediatrics

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http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/12/112

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Childhood apraxia of speech / Treatment / Effectiveness / Randomised control trial / Intervention / Rapid syllable transition treatment / Nuffield dyspraxia programme / Pediatrics

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