What types of speech and language disorders affect school-age children?
Children may experience one or more of the following disorders: • Speech sound disorders – (difficulty pronouncing sounds) • Language disorders – (difficulty understanding what they hear as well as expressing themselves with words) • Cognitive-communication disorders – (difficulty with thinking skills including perception, memory, awareness, reasoning, judgment, intellect and imagination) • Stuttering (fluency) disorders – (interruption of the flow of speech that may include hesitations, repetitions, prolongations of sounds or words) • Voice disorders – (quality of voice that may include hoarseness, nasality, volume (too loud or soft)
• Speech sound disorders – (difficulty pronouncing sounds) • Language disorders – (difficulty understanding what they hear as well as expressing themselves with words) • Cognitive-communication disorders – (difficulty with thinking skills including perception, memory, awareness, reasoning, judgment, intellect and imagination) • Stuttering (fluency) disorders – (interruption of the flow of speech that may include hesitations, repetitions, prolongations of sounds or words) • Voice disorders – (quality of voice that may include hoarseness, nasality, volume (too loud or soft) Do speech-language disorders affect learning? Speech and language skills are essential to academic success and learning. Language is the basis of communication. Reading, writing, gesturing, listening, and speaking are all forms of language. Learning takes place through the process of communication. The ability to communicate with peers and adults in the educational setting is essential for a student to succeed in scho
