Speech Sound Disorders: Articulation and Phonology.
Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia vs. Inconsistent Phonological Disorder (IPD) Inconsistency of speech production may occur in both DVD and in IPD, but these are very different speech sound disorders. Importantly DVD is classified as a motor speech sound disorder as children have difficulties with learning and co-ordinating movements for speech.
Causes Phonological disorder is often divided into three categories, based on the cause of the disorder. One cause is structural problems, or abnormalities in the areas necessary for speech sound production, such as the tongue or the roof of the mouth.
Speech Sounds Disorders - it is the inability to make certain sounds or put sounds together into words. E.g.: articulation or phonological disorders, apraxia of speech, or dysarthria. Language Disorders - it is the inability to understand what we hear or read and not being able to communicate our thoughts to others.
Flinders (2009) evaluated the effectiveness of NDP3 treatment for two children with severe speech sound disorders aged 4-6 years (NB different children to those included in the Belton (2006) study). Both children received 10 once weekly therapy sessions, each of one hour’s duration and treatment followed the principles of the NDP3 treatment approach and utilized the NDP3 pictorial resources.
Speech sound disorders include: Articulation disorders: An articulation disorder is the inability to say certain speech sounds correctly beyond the age when the sound is typically learned. Speech sounds may be dropped, added, distorted or substituted.
Speech impairments can be caused by cleft lip or palate, or by cerebral palsy, autism, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities or have no known cause. This article will give you some teaching strategies for students with communication disorders.
Yes I do! ds2 had a severe speech delay (dyspraxia was best final diagnosis), also with good understanding- causing him intense frustration. picked up before 2, and we started private speech therapy once a week around 3 because the group sessions we were attending through the local authority were not very helpful, the private therapist introduced makaton which helped with his frustration over.