As a speech and language therapist I work a lot with children that have difficulties with their sounds. These difficulties vary and some children have few substitutions and others are totally unintelligible. This story has been personally written by a dad. It is his account of the experience of having his child diagnosed with SEVERE PHONOLOGICAL DISORDER, as well as
A Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) involves difficulty with and/or slowness in the development of a child’s speech. The term ‘speech sound disorder(s)’ is an umbrella heading under which there are several sub-categories that include articulation disorder, phonological disorder and childhood apraxia of speech. Speech sound disorder is sometimes called ‘speech impairment’ or ‘speech difficulties’. It occurs when a child does not develop
What Is Backing? Backing disorder is a communication phenomenon in which speech sounds that should be made at the front of the mouth are made at the back of the mouth instead. Such a disorder might have physiological basis or might simply be specific to the individual. Speech therapy and exercises can help correct or lessen the impact of a
This is used for children whose speech is not clear. Comprehensive assessment for speech and sound typically includes case history; oral mechanism examination; speech sound assessment (single-word testing and connected speech sampling), including severity, intelligibility, stimulability, speech perception; spoken-language testing, including receptive and expressive language assessment, phonological processing; literacy assessment. Assessment may result in diagnosis of a speech sound disorder,
Speech development in children varies greatly from age to age. Children learn sounds by listening to people speaking around them. They have been tuning into the sounds around them since before they were born and they carry on developing their ability to tune into environmental sounds and speech sounds. Babies begin by playing with sounds first of all, then babble. This babble
Many parents contact me as they are worried about that their child’s speech is not easy to understand. Many children go through a phase of substituting sounds and then they gradually learn to use the correct sound in the correct place. However, there is a large number of children that continue to struggle with sound productions in many position of
