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How do we hear?

• Hearing loss is one of the most common health handicapping conditions among children and adults. The hearing sense is the cornerstone upon which our unique human communication system is built.
• This hearing handicap therefore makes it very difficult for people to learn to speak a language, which impairs their ability to communicate naturally with other people. It also has a detrimental effect on personality and emotional development.

Developmental verbal dyspraxia also known as Childhood apraxia of speech or dysapraxia is a conditioned where the child has difficulty in controlled production of speech. The first symtom of it would be lack of expressive vocabulary despite normal hearing and adequate comprehension skills. In childhood apraxia of speech, children produce speech sounds of with enormous variability in terms of phonemes, loudness and related features. The inconsistencies in their production make interpretation more challenging. They have difficulty in varying stress and intonation patterns. They have enormous difficulty in producing even two word phrases.can be defined as a severe and persistent phonological disorder coupled with an expressive syntactic disorder with variable neurological and articulatory findings.” (Aram 1984)