Greenbury logan childhood apraxia

Nicole and Perry Rogers knew something wasn’t right when their infant son, Ryan, didn’t look at them when they changed his diaper.

“We kind of discovered there was something going on probably just a few months after he was born,” Perry said in a phone interview Aug.

22.

The Las Vegas parents thought Ryan — now 7 — might have autism, but he didn’t seem to have any of the other characteristics of the condition.

They put Ryan into speech therapy when he was 18 months old.

At age 2, he was diagnosed with a rare speech disorder called childhood apraxia of speech.

CAS “is a motor speech disorder that makes it difficult for children to speak,” according to an Aug. 19 statement from Apraxia Kids.

“Children with the diagnosis of apraxia of speech generally have a good understanding of language and know what they want to say. However, they have difficulty learning or carrying out the complex sequenced movements that are necessary