The Assessment Protocol for Oral Motor, Oral Praxis, and Verbal Praxis Skills in Malayalam Speaking Children (APOOV-M) is a specialized clinical tool designed to address the diagnostic gap in identifying Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) within the Malayalam-speaking population. CAS is a neurological pediatric speech sound disorder where the precision and consistency of movements underlying speech are impaired in the absence of neuromuscular deficits.