Speech disorders
Alternate Names : Articulation deficiency, Voice disorders, Disfluency
Symptoms & Signs
Disfluency: - 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
- Leaves out consonants at the beginning of words by age 3
- Leaves out consonants at the end of words by age 4
- Persistent problems with articulation after age 7
- Leaves out sounds where they should occur
- Distorts sounds
- Substitutes an incorrect sound for a correct one
Voice disorders: - Pitch deviations
- Deviations in the loudness and quality of the voice
Diagnosis & Tests
- Denver Articulation Screening Examination
- Early Language Milestone Scale
- Denver II
- Peabody Picture Test Revised
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