Articulation/Phonology
A child with an articulation delay or phonological disorder may distort, substitute or omit one or more speech sounds.
Receptive and Expressive Language
A child with delayed receptive language skills often has difficulty understanding language. This child may have difficulty comprehending vocabulary or concepts, understanding questions, or following directions. A child with an expressive language delay may have problems communicating orally or in writing.
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder involving impairments of social interaction, communication and symbolic abilities.
Fluency/stuttering
A child with a fluency disorder may have issues characterized by the interruption in the flow of speech. He/she may present an atypical rate pattern, repetition, prolongation, and/or blocking of sounds or words. Distinguishing between normal developmental disfluencies and stuttering is a role of the speech pathologist.
Voice
A child with a voice disorder may display unusual or abnormal voice characteristics. This child mayhave inappropriate pitch, resonance, volume or quality of voice.
Central Auditory Processing
A child with a Central Auditory Processing disorder may have difficulty comprehending speech in backgrounds of noise or competing speech. Other problems may include distractibility, inattentiveness and short attention span, difficulty understanding verbal directions, and poor memory for auditory information, particularly for linguistically complex messages.
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