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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"speech sound disorder"”.
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Effectiveness of manual gesture treatment on residual /r/ articulation errors
The functional speech sound disorder, American English /r/ articulation errors, presents a unique and confounding clinical challenge as "therapy resistant" residual errors persist into adolescence and adulthood in many cases. Finding paucity of empirical research for /r/ treatment, evidence-based …
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Social Functioning Characteristics of a Young Adult with a History of Childhood Apraxia of Speech
<p>Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a pediatric speech sound disorder (SSD) that results from a motor planning impairment for volitional speech movements. This underlying impairment causes pervasive errors in speech sound production and often leads to problems with intelligibility, thus …
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Environmental influences on communication development: Implications for children with neurodevelopmental communication impairments
… neuroscience and communication sciences and disorders, this dissertation provides a compilation of studies aimed at examining contextual influences on children's communication development and the implications of this work for children with neurodevelopmental communication impairments. As …
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The acquisition of Setswana phonology in children aged 2;0 – 6;5 years
… and 3) contrast typical vs atypical Setswana speech acquisition and determine the occurrence and nature of speech sound disorders in children acquiring Setswana. The participant group comprised 81 children from the North-West Province of South Africa. All children were attending preschool and …
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Motor Learning Guided Treatment with Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Cueing & Feedback
… if participants with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) respond with improved speech production when provided motor learning guided (MLG) treatment strategies. Five participants, chronological ages 4;8 to 5;10 years, were provided three different types of treatment where cueing and feedback …