How can the speech-language pathologist help children with speech and language disorders?
The methods used will vary depending upon the nature and severity of the problem, the child’s age, and the child’s awareness of the problem. Speech-language pathologists provide many specialized services that include: • helping children with language disorders increase the number of words they know and combine these words more effectively • assisting children who stutter to speak more fluently • helping children with articulation disorders learn proper production of speech sounds What is an articulation disorder? The basic problem shown by a child with an articulation disorder is that he has failed to master the sounds of his language. This may be characterized by one or more of the following: • substitution of one sound for another such as “wabbit” for “rabbit” • distortion of a sound • omission of a sound that should be present such as “go” for “goat” • addition of an irrelevant sound such as “shlip” for “ship” Most young children show all of these errors at one time or another. Howe
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