Articulation Disorder
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What is Articulation Disorder?
Usually, children learn to make all speech sounds by 4 to 5 years of age, but few children may have trouble speaking clearly even after this age. Such speech sound disorder is called Articulation disorder, where a child faces difficulty in producing specific speech sounds.
More specifically, articulation disorder occurs when a child produces sounds with improper placement of the tongue and exerts improper pressure and coordination, which results in this disorder.
For more information regarding Articulation Disorder
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Articulation - Types & Symptoms
- Substitution: Here, a child or adult substitutes one sound with another. E.g.: using “s” instead of “th” or “w” in place of “r”.
- Additions: A tendency to add an extra sound to a word. E.g.: “belack” for ‘black’.
- Omission: Removal of a speech sound from the word. E.g.: ‘op’ for ‘hop’.
- Alterations or distortions: The child creates an incorrect sound that does not sound like any other sound in the spoken language.
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Causes of Articulation Disorder
- Injury to the brain
- Thinking or development disability
- Problems with hearing or hearing loss, such as past ear infections.
- Physical problems that affect speech, such as cleft palate or cleft lip
- Disorders affecting the nerves involved in speech.
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