Speech Disorders
Alternate Names : Articulation Deficiency, Dysfluency, Voice Disorders
Speech Disorders Symptoms & Signs
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
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