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Speech sound disorders is an umbrella term referring to any difficulty or combination of difficulties with perception, motor production, or phonological representation of speech sounds and speech segments—including phonotactic rules governing permissible speech sound sequences in a language.
Mar 18, 2022 · Speech sound disorders are a blanket description for a child’s difficulty in learning, articulating, or using the sounds/sound patterns of their language. These difficulties are usually clear when compared to the communication abilities of children within the same age group.
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Three types of speech sound disorders include: Articulation disorder: difficulty saying certain speech sounds. You may notice your child drops, adds, distorts or substitutes sounds in words. Phonological process disorder: where your child uses patterns of errors. The mistakes may be common in young children learning speech skills.
Feb 7, 2014 · 5 Common Speech Disorders in Children: Articulation Disorder: An articulation disorder is a speech sound disorder in which a child has difficulty making certain sounds correctly. Sounds may be omitted or improperly altered during the course of speech. A child may substitute sounds (“wabbit” instead of “rabbit”) or add sounds improperly ...
While speech sound errors can be the result of structural differences, such as cleft lip or palate, hearing loss, or additional differences, most frequently speech sound impairments are due to articulation impairments, phonological impairments, or childhood apraxia of speech.
A speech sound disorder means a child has trouble saying certain sounds and words past the expected age. A child with an articulation disorder has problems making certain sounds the right way. A child with phonological process disorder regularly makes certain word speech mistakes.
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Most children can say almost all speech sounds correctly by 4 years old. A child who does not say sounds by the expected ages may have a speech sound disorder. You may hear the terms "articulation disorder" and "phonological disorder" to describe speech sound disorders like this.
