Myths about CAS - Part 1

Breanna
Sep 13, 2025
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Updated: Sep 23, 2025

ASHA published their technical report on childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) in 2007, when I was in graduate school. This report was the result of a huge project compiling what was known about CAS at that time, although it had been called many different names (developmental apraxia/dyspraxia, verbal dyspraxia, etc). The technical report helped to dispel a lot of myths, but there’s still a lot of misinformation out there. Let’s bust some of those myths!

Read my entire guest blog post on the Bjorem Blog here.

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