During Little Egg Harbor’s May 11 township committee meeting, Mayor Blaise Scibetta presented a proclamation to the Daskalakis family declaring May 14, 2023 Apraxia Awareness Day.
Childhood apraxia of speech is a neurological speech disorder that makes accurate planning and programming the underlying movements necessary for the lips, tongue and jaw for clear speech difficult for children.
CAS is among the most severe, unfamiliar and misunderstood speech deficiencies in children today, with one in 10 out of 1,000 children diagnosed.
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