Speech-Language Therapy Information
Categories and areas of focus:
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Speech-Language Therapy Information
Categories and areas of focus:
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• speech sound production
• articulation• resonance • hypernasality• voice • phonation quality• fluency • stuttering• language (comprehension and expression) • morphology• cognition • attention• feeding and swallowing • oral, pharyngeal |
| • neonatal problems (e.g., prematurity, low birth weight, substance exposure) • developmental disabilities (e.g., specific language impairment, autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder) • auditory problems (e.g., hearing loss or deafness) • oral anomalies (e.g., cleft lip/palate, dental malocclusion, macroglossia, oral-motor dysfunction) • respiratory compromise (e.g., bronchopulmonary dysplasia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) • pharyngeal anomalies (e.g., upper airway obstruction, velopharyngeal insufficiency/incompetence) • laryngeal anomalies (e.g., vocal fold pathology, tracheal stenosis, tracheostomy) • psychiatric disorder (e.g., psychosis, schizophrenia) • genetic disorders (e.g., Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, Rett syndrome, velocardiofacial syndrome) |
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