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If you've heard much of my teaching about childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), you've probably noticed that I talk a lot about syllable shapes. Probably more than most people. And that's because I think one of the most important questions we can ask as clinicians is this: How do humans actually learn to speak? Before we start debating DTTC versus Kaufman, blocked versus distributed practice, or which intervention has the strongest evidence base, I think it's worth stepping back

A child may learn to say individual words clearly, yet still become difficult to understand in sentences. Discover why sentence-level speech creates a new motor planning challenge for children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) and how we can support the transition from clear words to connected speech.