Concurrent treatment as a motor-skill approach for Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) /by Aubrie Lynn Hagopian.

The purpose of this study was to determine if concurrent treatment would be effective and efficient in treating CAS. Concurrent treatment is a treatment program that takes the speech task hierarchy and randomizes it so that all tasks are worked on in one session. Previous studies have shown the treatment program to be effective and efficient in treating phonological and articulation disorders. The program was adapted to be used with children with CAS. A multiple???baselines???across???subjects research design was used and probes of generalization to untaught words were administered every fifth session. Three children, ranging in age from 4 to 6 years old, were the participants. All participants showed progress during the study. The results obtained from this study suggest that concurrent treatment can be adapted for use in treating speech disorders associated with CAS