but some children will need direct training to eliminate all articulation errors. The exact speech pattern of ... A speech-language pathologist is a professional trained at the master's or doctoral level to evaluate and help the child or adult with an articulation problem as well as other speech and/or language disorders.
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Children with "dyspraxia" (Childhood Apraxia of Speech) or a dysarthria have articulation disorders (or motor speech disorders). Children with anatomical (structural) differences such as cleft lip and palate, tongue-tie or other cranio-facial anomalies may also have articulation disorders.
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Most children make some mistakes as they learn to say new words. A speech sound disorder occurs when mistakes continue past a certain age. Every sound has a different range of ages when the child ... Speech sound disorders include problems with articulation (making sounds) and phonological processes (sound patterns).
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Although oral motor therapy is sometimes used to treat articulation disorders in school-age children, several reports question its efficacy. ... These results question the efficacy of general and discrete oral motor exercises because they did not enhance the children's speech production. ... Articulation Disorders [therapy]
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A control group without articulation disorders was composed of 160 children with similar properties. In the first stage of this study, both groups were administered the Ross Information Processing Assessment Test-Primary.
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In many cases, there is not a clearly identifiable cause of the articulation disorder. However, many children with articulation disorders have evidence or oral-motor dysfunction due to minor brain damage or neurological dysfunction.
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In the present study 14 children in grades K to 3 with articulation disorders were compared to 14 age matched subjects with normal articulation on three tests of phonological awareness (rhyming, phoneme blending and phoneme counting).
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The phonological therapy discussion group provides communication disorders professionals with an opportunity to ask and answer questions and explore theoretical and research issues related to young children's speech sound disorders in general, and developmental phonological disorders, articulation disorders,
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Articulation Disorders in Children: When Does a Child Need Speech Therapy? ... For many children the cause of oral or motor dysfunction articulation disorder comes from from brain damage or neurological dysfunction. For other children, however, there is no clearly identifyable cause.
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Gibbon, F.E. 1999. Undifferentiated lingual gestures in children with articulation / phonological disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, in press. ... Gibbon, F.E. 1999. Undifferentiated lingual gestures in children with articulation / phonological disorders. Journal of Speech, Language,
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