What is Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia?
Definition
> A condition where children have difficulty in making and co-ordinating the precise movements needed to produce clear speech with their mouths; and without any signs of damage to nerves or muscles. Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia is also sometimes called Childhood Apraxia of Speech or Verbal Dyspraxia.
Characteristics of DVD
Speech characteristics:
> Literacy difficulties affecting reading, spelling and writing
> Slow progress in therapy
Click on the button below to watch a video on the symptoms and signs of developmental verbal dyspraxia described by Professor Amanda Kirby. Her insight paints a picture of the challenges a child faces at school on a daily basis with developmental verbal dyspraxia.
> A condition where children have difficulty in making and co-ordinating the precise movements needed to produce clear speech with their mouths; and without any signs of damage to nerves or muscles. Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia is also sometimes called Childhood Apraxia of Speech or Verbal Dyspraxia.
Characteristics of DVD
Speech characteristics:
- A limited range of consonant and vowel speech sounds
- Overuse of one sound (favorite articulation)
- Vowel distortions
- Inconsistent production
- Breakdown in sequencing in words, particularly as length increase
- Errors of omission and substitution – idiosyncratic substitutions may occur
- Glottal stop insertions and substitutions
- Voice difficulties affecting volume, length, pitch, quality
- Resonance difficulties affecting the overall tone of the speech
- Prosody difficulties affecting rate, rhythm, stress, intonation
- Unintelligible speech
- Family history of speech, language or literacy difficulties
- Delayed language development – expressive language usually more affected than receptive language
- Delayed development of early speech skills e.g. babbling
- Feeding difficulties
- Oral dyspraxia affecting movements of the larynx, lips, tongue or palate
> Literacy difficulties affecting reading, spelling and writing
> Slow progress in therapy
Click on the button below to watch a video on the symptoms and signs of developmental verbal dyspraxia described by Professor Amanda Kirby. Her insight paints a picture of the challenges a child faces at school on a daily basis with developmental verbal dyspraxia.