What is apraxia, and what are the different forms of this disorder?
Apraxia is a deficit in the programming of musculature for voluntary movement in the absence of any muscular weakness or paralysis. There are different types of apraxia.
A client with limb apraxia does not have the ability to perform voluntary movements, including movement of the limbs. A client with this disorder might experience deficits in voluntarily using multiple objects to perform a sequence of acts upon request, such as "making a sandwich."
A client with oral apraxia may have difficulty programming the facial and lingual muscles for acts that do not involve speech. For example, this person may not be able to blow out a candle.
Often the client with oral apraxia may also have verbal apraxia. Verbal apraxia is manifested by a deficit in programming the articulators of the sounds of speech. For instance, the person with verbal apraxia will make errors in the correct articulation of producing speech.
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