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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.
January's Most Popular Articles...
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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… [1832 views in Jan]
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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… [898 views in Jan]
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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… [606 views in Jan]
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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… [594 views in Jan]
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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… [284 views in Jan]
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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… [246 views in Jan]
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Latest Comments
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Emi
Re: The Lidcombe Program
My 3 year old has started to stammer about 5 weeks ago and has progressed very fast and now it affect every word she pronounces and I am…
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Re: Child Abuse and Speech Disorders
I stopped talking to my dad in my normal voice when I was in grade 1 after he hit me because I couldn’t understand my…
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Re: New Earpiece to Help With Stammering
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