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(OMDs) are abnormal movement patterns of the face and mouth. When these abnormal movement patterns occur, it can impact a person’s ability to articulate speech sounds.
According to ASHA, some signs of an OMD may include the following:

• Someone who always breathes through the mouth or has difficulty breathing through the nose.
• Limited tongue movement.
• Eating may be messy or difficult. Keep in mind that it is normal for babies to stick their tongue out and push food out of their mouth. Over time, they do this less.
• An overbite, underbite, and/or other dental problems.
• The tongue pushing past the teeth, even when a person is not talking or using the tongue.
• Difficulty saying some sounds, like “s” in “sun,” “sh” in “ship,” or “j” in “jump.”
• Drooling, especially beyond age 2.
• Difficulty closing the lips to swallow.
  https://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/orofacial-myofunctional-disorders/

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a neurological childhood (pediatric) speech sound disorder in which the precision and consistency of movements underlying speech are impaired in the absence of neuromuscular deficits (e.g. abnormal reflexes, abnormal tone). CAS may occur as a result of known neurological impairment, in association with complex neurobehavioral disorders of known and unknown origin, or as an idiopathic neurogenic speech sound disorder. The core impairment in planning and/or programming spatiotemporal parameters of movement sequences results in errors in speech sound production and prosody. (ASHA, 2007b, Definitions of CAS section, para. 1).