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Speech and Language Impairments

Speech and Language Impairments. Speech and Language Disorders. IDEA-”a communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairments, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance”

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Speech and Language Impairments

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  1. Speech and Language Impairments

  2. Speech and Language Disorders • IDEA-”a communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairments, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance” • In some states children can have IEP’s that are “speech only” • Other states the student cannot have an IEP if speech therapy is the only special need

  3. Causes Biological Environmental • Hearing loss • Traumatic brain injury • Problems with the Central Nervous System • Emotional disabilities • Congenital (present after birth) • Repeated ear infections • Child left alone • Abusing voice at a young age

  4. Language Disorders • Ranging from mild to severe • Language delay • learning language at a slower rate • Aphasia • loss of language after developed • Central auditory processing disorders • brain doesn’t affectively interpret information through ears

  5. Speech Disorders • Speech- Voice, resonance, articulation and fluency • Articulation disorders • When a sound is not found in the child’s language, another sound is used • Omissions, substitutions and additions • Fluency disorders • Stuttering • A person’s speech is broken by sound repetitions, prolonged sounds, or unanticipated stoppages of sound • Cluttering • Speaking in bursts or pauses in unexpected places • Approxia of Speech • Not able to put words together because the lips, tongue and other speech mechanisms are unable to do what the brain is telling them

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