Speech apraxia in childhood: beyond phonetic and phonological issues

Abstract

This article proposes the analysis and discussion, based on the Discursive Neurolinguistics (ND), of the neurophysiological, psychic, cognitive, linguistic and social aspects pertinent to the process of language acquisition of hearing children with “Speech Apraxia”. Based on the bibliographical review of the area, covering the evaluation and speech therapy traditionally intended for those children, we expanded, based on a discursive approach of language, our reflections on the child with apraxia. Thus, in addition to the phonoarticulatory alterations, the child is involved in important issues related to his or her babbling period, the neurofunctional conformation of the articulatory gestures memory and the constitutive processes of dialogue as a matrix of signification.