What types of speech & 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)
