SPEECH SOUND DISORDER
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
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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Wiki Number: 47-Speech Sounds Disorder
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Youtube Video:
7 Strategies To Help Speech Sound Difficulties In Your Child
Amazon or Library Book: Grades 3-6 SPED: Following Directions
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Support Group: asha.org; 800-638-8255
American Speech and Hearing Association
(This is an organization of professionals,
but they may be provide referrals for paid services.)
Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Word count matters: Features of written language production in progressive apraxia of speech with and without agrammatismby Katerina A Tetzloff on January 19, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: This study provides novel quantitative data showing that agrammatic-apractic spectrum disorder patients show decreased written language output on a written picture description task compared to controls, even when there is no overt evidence of aphasia (i.e., PPAOS). Furthermore, these data show that controls, PPAOS patients, and AOS+PAA patients can all be distinguished based on the quantity of information and grammatical errors in a written picture description task. Future studies...
- Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficultiesby Stephanie van Eeden on January 17, 2025
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: An association between language skills and speech production was observed. The distribution of speech errors in children with CP ± L varied with a high level of DSC as well as CSC. Those with CSC + DSC had significantly lower language scores than those with typically developing speech or CSC only. Speech and language therapists working with this caseload should be alerted to potential ongoing phonological and language difficulties in children presenting with this...
- Delayed Versus Atypical Speech Sound Development: A Markedness-Based Analysis of Speech Sound Disorder in Cantoneseby Akshay R Maggu on January 13, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: The findings from the current study suggest that the weightage-based Maximum Entropy grammar approach can delineate between the SSD subgroups (i.e., SSD-delay vs. SSD-atypical) defined by the ranking-based traditional OT approach. These findings offer a starting point into the development of objective tools for clinicians for detecting the SSD subgroups to make decisions on treatment type, as we speculate different treatment approaches for SSD-delay versus SSD-atypical subtypes.
- The utility of parent's and teacher's concerns for the screening of speech sound disorders: A study on French-speaking preschool childrenby Léonor Piron on January 10, 2025
Speech sound disorders (SSD) are associated with difficulties in communication, social participation, literacy, and learning. An early identification process is therefore necessary. Our study was aimed at determining the utility and accuracy of parent's and teacher's concerns in screening for SSD. We also aimed to determine whether the accuracy of parent's and teacher's concern varied according to kindergarten grades. For this study, 215 French-speaking preschool children were recruited from...