Activating the Supplementary Motor Area (SMA) = Better Speech Motor Control 🧠✨ In Apraxia therapy, we don’t just work on repeating sounds — we work on activating the brain areas responsible for planning and sequencing movement. The SMA plays a key role in helping children initiate, coordinate, and control the motor movements needed for speech. When we target SMA activation through sensory-motor, rhythmic, and movement-based tasks, we’re actually strengthening the neural pathways that support cl