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Speech disorders





Speech disorders

Alternative Names:

Articulation deficiency; Voice disorders; Dysfluency
Symptoms:

Dysfluency:

  • repetition of sounds, words, or phrases after age 4
  • frustration with attempts to communicate
  • head jerking while talking
  • eye blinking while talking
  • embarrassment with speech
Articulation Deficiency:
  • unintelligible speech by age 3
  • the leaving out of consonants at the beginning of words by age 3
  • the leaving out of consonants at the end of words by age 4
  • persistent problems with articulation after age 7
  • the leaving out of sounds where they should occur
  • the distortion of sounds
  • substituting an incorrect sound for a correct one
Voice disorders:
  • pitch deviations
  • deviations in the loudness of the voice
  • quality deviations

Signs and tests:
  • Denver Articulation Screening Examination
  • Early Language Milestone Scale
  • Denver II
  • Peabody Picture Test Revised



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