Neurological disorders are disorders that affect the spine, brain, and nerves that connect them. There is a wide range of neurological disorders and more than 600 disorders that affect the nervous system. As a result, the treatment of neurological disorders has attracted significant attention and been the subject of numerous studies. The studies have focused on various issues relating to these disorders, particularly the development and use of various methods for treatment of these diseases. An example of a study that has been carried out towards the treatment of neurological disorders is a study by E. Maas, C.E. Gildersleeve-Neumann, K.J. Jakielski, and R. Stoeckel. This group of researchers conducted a study that examined the use of motor-based intervention protocols to treat childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), which is one of the speech sound disorders affecting children. The researchers commenced the study through identification of the various categories of speech sound disorders (SSD), which is classified on the basis of descriptive linguistic typologies (Maas et al., 2014). They identified apraxia of speech (CAS) as one of the three subtypes of Motor Speech Disorder (MSD), which is one of the classifications of speech sound disorders. The study states that CAS is associated with speech motor preparation deficits like planning and programming deficits, which differentiates it from other SSD categories and MSD subtypes. Some of the symptoms of CAS include inconsistent mistakes on consonants and...

During this process, the researchers excluded motor-based intervention approaches that do not primarily focus on production of speech. The first step towards evaluation of these interventions entailed conducting a review of concepts relating to speech motor control and learning. Based on the review of these concepts, the study found that there are certain practice conditions that promote motor learning. The study then examined the extent with which the practice conditions could promote speech motor learning among children suffering from apraxia of speech. The reviewed motor-based treatment approaches or practice conditions in the study include Target Selection, Integral Stimulation Approaches, Rapid Syllable Transition (ReST), Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme, 3rd Edition (NDP3), Physically Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT), and Biofeedback Treatment (Mass et al., 2014).
Following the review of the concepts and practice conditions, the researcher concluded that available evidence shows that a series of motor-based intervention protocols enhance speech motor skills of children with CAS (Maas et al., 2014). These protocols contribute to enhance motor skills among children suffering from CAS through several ingredients. Some of the ingredients in most of these effective…