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    Apraxia is a motor disorder caused by damage to the brain (specifically the posterior parietal cortex or corpus callosum), which causes difficulty with...
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  • Apraxia of speech (AOS), also called verbal apraxia, is a speech sound disorder affecting an individual's ability to translate conscious speech plans...
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  • Ideational apraxia (IA) is a neurological disorder which explains the loss of ability to conceptualize, plan, and execute the complex sequences of motor...
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  • Ideomotor Apraxia, often IMA, is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to correctly imitate hand gestures and voluntarily mime tool use...
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  • Constructional apraxia is a neurological disorder in which people are unable to perform tasks or movements even though they understand the task, are willing...
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  • In ophthalmology, apraxia of lid opening (ALO) is an inability to initiate voluntary opening of the eyelid following a period of eyelid closure, with...
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  • Oculomotor apraxia (OMA) is the absence or defect of controlled, voluntary, and purposeful eye movement. It was first described in 1952 by the American...
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  • Developmental verbal dyspraxia (DVD), also known as childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and developmental apraxia of speech (DAS), is a condition in which an individual...
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  • Bruns apraxia, or frontal ataxia, is a gait apraxia found in patients with bilateral frontal lobe disorders. It is characterised by an inability to initiate...
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  • produce the sound Cannot be produced voluntarily No production ever observed Apraxia of speech may result from stroke or progressive illness, and involves inconsistent...
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    involved in speech, for example, the mouth or tongue. Mutism may be due to apraxia, that is, problems with coordination of muscles involved in speech. Another...
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    Non-dominant hemisphere Contralateral hemispatial neglect Constructional apraxia Dress apraxia Anosognosia – lack of awareness of the existence of one's disability...
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    include:[citation needed] Parkinsonism Alien hand syndrome Apraxia (ideomotor apraxia and limb-kinetic apraxia) Aphasia The presence of parkinsonism as a clinical...
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    a whole (simultanagnosia), difficulty in fixating the eyes (oculomotor apraxia), and inability to move the hand to a specific object by using vision (optic...
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    repair. Mutations in this gene have been associated with ataxia–ocular apraxia. Multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been identified...
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  • "self-restriction". The left hand also showed signs of severe ideomotor apraxia. It was able to mimic actions but only with the help of mirror movements...
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  • prosody. There are two types of Apraxia. Developmental (or Childhood Apraxia of speech) or acquired Apraxia. Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a neurological...
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  • Apraxia including ideational apraxia, ideomotor apraxia, kinetic apraxia, limb apraxia, verbal apraxia Cognitive dysfunction Difficulties concentrating...
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    First being described and identified in 1985, Wieacker-Wolff syndrome is a rare, slowly progressive, genetic disorder present at birth and characterized...
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  • structural abnormalities, such as cleft palate and must not be confused with apraxia of speech, which refers to problems in the planning and programming aspect...
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  • who suffer from apraxia of speech may retain the ability to produce formulaic language, such as "thank you" or "how are you?". Apraxia of speech can also...
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  • manual apraxia was found in 7% and oral apraxia was found in 6%. Both manual and oral apraxia were related to increasing severity of stroke. Oral apraxia was...
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    articulatory dyspraxia, and in the United States the usual term is childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Key problems include: Difficulties controlling the speech...
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  • to a limited degree, in treating - cognitive impairment (e.g. aphasia, apraxia, schizophrenia etc.). BPO pantomimes are generally seen more in young children...
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  • Balint's syndrome patients can suffer from three major components: optic apraxia, optic ataxia, and simultanagnosia. Simultanagnosia is when patients have...
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    impairment extends to the domains of language (aphasia), skilled movements (apraxia), and recognition (agnosia), and functions such as decision-making and...
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    dysarthria (motor speech disorder resulting from neurological injury) apraxia (altered voluntary movements) visual field defect memory deficits (involvement...
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    tongue and mouth to produce speech. Expressive aphasia also differs from apraxia of speech, which is a motor disorder characterized by an inability to create...
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    consciousness, aggression, seizures, depression, hemiparesis, ataxia, apraxia, coma, etc. There will also be lesions in the corpus callosum.[citation...
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    sustained during the injury, amnesia and aphasia may become permanent, and apraxia has been documented in patients. Amnesia is a condition in which a person...
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