Execution and Speech Motor Planning

(Speech Therapy) The ability to plan out in the brain the sounds needed to produce words, figure out what muscles need to move and in what order and then say them correctly; children with apraxia have difficulty putting sounds together to form words (e.g., they can say “uh” and “p” separately, but have difficulty planning the order and movement of muscles to say the word “up”).

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