Speech disorders

Alternative names:

articulation deficiency; dysfluency; voice disorders

Symptoms:

Dysfluency:

• repetition of sounds, words, or phrases after age 4
• frustration with attempts to communicate
• head jerking while talking
• eye blinking while talking
• embarrassment with speech

Articulation Deficiency:

• unintelligible speech by age 3
• the leaving out of consonants at the beginning of words by age 3
• the leaving out of consonants at the end of words by age 4
• persistent problems with articulation after age 7
• the leaving out of sounds where they should occur
• the distortion of sounds
• substituting an incorrect sound for a correct one

Voice disorders:

• pitch deviations
• deviations in the loudness of the voice
• quality deviations

Signs and tests:

• Denver Articulation Screening Examination
• Early Language Milestone Scale
• Denver II
• Peabody Picture Test Revised