Speech Disorders: Causes, Treatments and Therapies

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Speech, language and communication disorders affect a significant portion of the global population.From stammering to lisps, dyspraxia to dysarthia, a variety of speech disorders exist which make verbal communication difficult.

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The Lidcombe Program: The Lidcombe Program is a behavioural treatment program for children who stutter. It consists of two phases and is conducted by parents. The Lidcombe Program… [1442 views in Apr]
Child Abuse and Speech Disorders: Child abuse can take many forms including physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional abuse. While physical abuse and sexual abuse usually leave marks… [664 views in Apr]
What to With Problems Pronouncing 'Sh' and 'Ch'?: By age five children are usually able to pronounce the sounds “sh” and “ch” so the fact that your grandson is not able to… [442 views in Apr]
What is Backing Disorder?: A backing disorder is a substitution type of speech disorder in which sounds that are normally made at the front of the mouth are made at the back of the… [372 views in Apr]
Lisps: Lisps are speech disorders in which individuals are unable to produce a specific speech sound (or sounds). Many children lisp naturally as they learn to speak and produce specific… [180 views in Apr]
Dysprosody: Dysprosody is a rare and relatively unknown speech disorder among the general population. Individuals suffering from dysprosody can speak fairly fluently but the rhythm of their… [144 views in Apr]