This group is for parents/carers of children with Verbal and oro-motor Dyspraxia to discuss therapies, difficulties, education or just generally vent off or share special moments.
Children with developmental verbal dyspraxia have difficulty in making and co-ordinating the precise movements required for the production of clear speech, and yet there is no evidence of damage to nerves or muscles. They have difficulty in producing individual speech sounds and in sequencing sounds together in words. As a result their speech is often unintelligible even to family members.
The favoured term in the UK is developmental verbal dyspraxia, however it is also sometimes referred to as articulatory dyspraxia and in the USA the usual term is developmental or childhood apraxia of speech.
