Speech and Language Deficiency
Speech and Language Deficiency
Medline Plus (2012) says, “Speech disorders refer to several conditions in which a person has problems creating or forming the speech sounds needed to communicate with others. Three common speech disorders are: articulation disorders, disfluency, and voice disorders. Speech disorders are different from language disorder in children, such as: getting their meaning or message across to others, understanding the message coming from others” (Zieve). Also, Medline Plus says, “Language disorder in children refers to problems with either: getting their meaning or message across to others (expressive language disorder), or understanding the message coming from others (receptive language disorder). Some children only have an expressive language disorder. Others have a mixed receptive-expressive language disorder, meaning that they have symptoms of both conditions. Children with language disorders are able to produce sounds, and the speech can be understood” (Zieve). The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) (2012) says, “A speech sound disorders occurs when mistakes continue past a certain age. Each sound has a different range of ages when the child should make the sound correctly.” An article in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research written in May 1986, called Prevalence of Speech and Language Disorders in 5-Year-Old Kindergarten Children in the Ottawa-Carleton Region talks about an assessment on a representative sample of 5-year-old kindergarten for speech and/or language disorder. “Of the 1,655 children tested, 180 were identified as having speech or language impairment. It is estimated that within the total reference population, between 16.2% and 21.8% would should some impairment; for the boys, the rate would be 15.5% to 20.7% and for the girls, between 19.1% and 25.1%... Approximately 36% of the identified boys and 30% of the girls would have speech problems only, the remainder having speech and
Medline Plus (2012) says, “Speech disorders refer to several conditions in which a person has problems creating or forming the speech sounds needed to communicate with others. Three common speech disorders are: articulation disorders, disfluency, and voice disorders. Speech disorders are different from language disorder in children, such as: getting their meaning or message across to others, understanding the message coming from others” (Zieve). Also, Medline Plus says, “Language disorder in children refers to problems with either: getting their meaning or message across to others (expressive language disorder), or understanding the message coming from others (receptive language disorder). Some children only have an expressive language disorder. Others have a mixed receptive-expressive language disorder, meaning that they have symptoms of both conditions. Children with language disorders are able to produce sounds, and the speech can be understood” (Zieve). The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) (2012) says, “A speech sound disorders occurs when mistakes continue past a certain age. Each sound has a different range of ages when the child should make the sound correctly.” An article in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research written in May 1986, called Prevalence of Speech and Language Disorders in 5-Year-Old Kindergarten Children in the Ottawa-Carleton Region talks about an assessment on a representative sample of 5-year-old kindergarten for speech and/or language disorder. “Of the 1,655 children tested, 180 were identified as having speech or language impairment. It is estimated that within the total reference population, between 16.2% and 21.8% would should some impairment; for the boys, the rate would be 15.5% to 20.7% and for the girls, between 19.1% and 25.1%... Approximately 36% of the identified boys and 30% of the girls would have speech problems only, the remainder having speech and