Intro to Paediatric Speech Flashcards
What areas does speech intervention target?
Articulation and phonology, with a focus on intelligibility.
What is involved in speech production? (anatomically)
Tongue, lips, nose, teeth, hard and soft palate, the mandible, pharynx, larynx and the respiratory system.
What can SSDs impact/make difficult?
Perception and phonological representation of speech sounds, artic and motor production, phonotactics, and prosody.
What are the 5 types of SSD?
Phonological impairment, inconsistent speech disorder, articulation impairment, childhood apraxia of speech and childhood dysarthria.
Phonological impairment
Most common, a cognitive-linguistic difficulty characterised by pattern based speech errors due to difficulty learning a language’s phonological system.
Inconsistent speech disorder
Characterised by inconsistent productions of the same lexical item, associated with phonological assembly difficulty (difficulty selecting and sequencing sounds) without accompanying oromotor difficulties.
Articulation impairment
(aka misarticulations, residual artic. errors, persistent speech errors). Characterised by speech sound errors involving sibilants and/or rhotics. Speech perception difficulties may underlie this SSD.
Childhood apraxia of speech
(CAS) a motor speech disorder associated with a difficulty planning and programming movement, resulting in dysprosody and speech sound errors. AKA developmental dyspraxia, developmental verbal dys. and developmental apraxia of speech.
Childhood dysarthria
Involves difficulty with the sensorimotor control processes involved in speech production, mainly motor programming and execution. Often result of neurological impairment. Has six types.
Six types of childhood dysarthria
Flaccid, spastic, hyperkinetic, hypokinetic, ataxic and mixed.
Motor SSDS
Childhood dysarthria, CAS and articulation impairment.
Phonological SSDs
Phonological impairment and inconsistent speech disorder.
