Julie Case, assistant professor of speech-language-hearing sciences, has received a sub-grant for her research project, “A Randomized Control Trial of Motor-Based Intervention for Childhood Apraxia of Speech.” Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, the research will test treatments that directly refine speech movements using methods that quantify speech motor control to improve childhood apraxia of speech (CAS).
In partnership with New York University, the project is a randomized control trial designed to examine the outcomes of a non-traditional, motor-based approach, Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cuing (DTTC), to improve speech production in children with CAS. In the trial, 72 children with CAS, between the ages of two and seven will be treated with DTTC.
The federal grant provides more than $34,000 over a 3-year period.
