TY - JOUR AU - Rutkiewicz-Hanczewska, Małgorzata PY - 2020/09/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Childhood apraxia of speech JF - Prace Językoznawcze JA - PJUWM VL - 22 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.31648/pj.5822 UR - https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pj/article/view/5822 SP - 151-167 AB - <p>The article is concerned with the specificity of childhood apraxia of speech, i.e. a disorder<br>affecting the ability to transform an abstract phonological code into speech movement.<br>Such disorders affect mainly planning and/or programming of motor sequences, which<br>results in inconsistent linguistic errors, disrupted transitions between segments<br>of speech, and inappropriate prosody. The author presents features that distinguish apraxia<br>of speech, pointing also to the underlying cause of the disorder, which has not been<br>recognised yet, and its possible neurobiological substrates. In the second part of the text,<br>the focus is on the specificity of the therapy of verbal apraxia, with particular emphasis<br>on the methods available in Polish speech and language therapy.</p> ER -