45. Five Literacy Skills Impacted by Childhood Apraxia of Speech (and How SLPs Can Intervene Early)

If you work with children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), you can’t afford to miss this conversation. In today’s episode, I break down five critical areas of literacy that children with CAS are more likely to struggle with—phonological awareness, phonological processing, speech perception, print, and narrative skills.

You’ll hear why pairing print with phonological awareness tasks improves outcomes, how CAS connects with dyslexia in the cerebellum, and why narrative skills may be the golden key to social-emotional growth.

🎯 This week’s call to action for SLPs: If you’re supporting preschoolers with CAS, you need tools that strengthen literacy, narrative, and speech sound skills before kindergarten. My SIS Membership gives you empirically-based, movement-rich, ready-to-use activities every week—including phonological awareness games, narrative story decks, AAC supports, and literacy-driven movement activities—so you can intervene early with confidence.

👉 Join today at www.kellyvess.com/sis