Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that makes it hard to speak. If you have apraxia of speech, you will have problems saying sounds correctly. We have Speech-Language Pathologists who specialize in treating Apraxia.

Symptoms

• Can cause you to say something different than what you mean
• You may even make up words
• You may say things that don’t make sense
• Trouble imitating sounds

Causes

• Damage to the parts of the brain that control how muscles move
• Stroke or traumatic brain injury
• Dementia
• Brain tumors
• Brain diseases that worsen over time

Frustrations

• You may know that what you say is wrong and try to fix it.
• Sometimes you will get it right, but sometimes you will still say something else.

For more information on apraxia, call our office at (208) 535-1286.