This impairment is at the phonemic/linguistic level, meaning that overall syllable structures and groups of sounds are omitted, substituted, or simplified. What is a phonological disorder?Ī phonological disorder is difficulty organizing sounds in the brain. The impairment is at the phonetic/motoric level, meaning that a sound may be substituted or distorted in a predictable way.Įxample: A student produces the /s/ and /sh/ sounds with lateral airflow (e.g., a lateral lisp). We’ll take a deep dive into these terms, but for now, here’s a quick refresher: What is an articulation disorder?Īn articulation disorder is characterized by difficulty producing individual speech sounds. In this post, we’ll focus on types without a known cause (functional), including articulation and phonological disorders. There are speech sound disorders with known underlying causes (organic) including cleft lip/palate, orofacial conditions, deafness, dysarthria, and apraxia (check out this post for more information on childhood apraxia of speech). This post is a comprehensive guide to speech sound disorders, which is an umbrella term used to categorize difficulty with the production of speech sounds (the ASHA Practice Portal page for Speech Sound Disorders is a great reference for this topic). This is a guest blog post by Holly, a school-based SLP, all about speech sound disorders: articulation and phonological development.
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