Early warning. (early childhood).Early childhood is a time that is marked with important milestones in development. It is also an opportune op·por·tune adj. 1. Suited or right for a particular purpose: an opportune place to make camp. 2. Occurring at a fitting or advantageous time: an opportune arrival. , if not critical, time for helping a child with a disability to make improvements in areas where there are deficits. In these articles, two mothers discuss the impact of early intervention ear·ly intervention n. Abbr. EI A process of assessment and therapy provided to children, especially those younger than age 6, to facilitate normal cognitive and emotional development and to prevent developmental disability or delay. and support in their families' experience with apraxia apraxia Disturbance in carrying out skilled acts, caused by a lesion in the cerebral cortex; motor power and mental capacity remain intact. Motor apraxia is the inability to perform fine motor acts. Ideational apraxia is loss of the ability to plan even a simple action. of speech (also known as developmental apraxia of speech, verbal apraxia or dyspraxia dyspraxia /dys·prax·ia/ (dis-prak´se-ah) partial loss of ability to perform coordinated acts. dys·prax·i·a n. Impairment of the ability to execute purposeful, voluntary movement. ), a neurologically based disorder affecting the ability to plan, execute and sequence the movements needed for speech. |
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