:: I am a graduate student working on Master's degree in Speech Pathology. I am currently seeing a child with OMA and I visited this site to find more about the causes of OMA for the child's mother. From my studies I have found that in cases where damage has occurred in the brain, it is located in the premotor area and the supplementary motor area of the frontal lobe. I would like to now more about the pathways and how and where the signals are getting lost. Apraxia is a strange disorder with all of its inconsistencies, but my client seems to be doing very well with therapy. I am using the program called "Moving Across Syllables." It seems to be an effective tool for facilitating responses and improving productions.
>My daughter is three and has OMA and speech delays. Her level of comprehension is spot on and she does talk but is very difficult to understand if you don't know her. She has been in speech therapy for two years and ,until nine months ago, had only 40% hearing due to chronic glue ear. Now she has 100% normal hearing and has made leaps and bounds in her speech since then. What is the connection to OMA? Is there a connection? Jessika also had a soft cleft palate repair done at 10 months and some air still escapes causing some of her difficulties in intelligible speech. There are so many contributing factors with her but I'd really love to know if it can be connected to the OMA as well.