Types Of Speech Sound Disorders

Question 1

What are the three types of SSDs?

Answer 1

Childhood Apraxia of Speech, phonological disorder, and articulation disorder

Question 2

What is CAS?

Answer 2

Disorder of planning movement of speech sounds

Question 3

What is phonological disorder?

Answer 3

Disorder of mental rules for speech sounds

Question 4

What is articulation disorder

Answer 4

Disorder of equipment for speech sounds

Question 5

CAS characteristics

Answer 5

Lengthened and distorted co-artic transitions between sounds

Longer and complex syllables

Inconsistent when repeating words

Slow speed and rhythm

Question 6

Motor problems w/ CAS

Answer 6

Gross and fine motor delays

Motor clumsiness

Oral and limb apraxia

Question 7

What is an Artic disorder

Answer 7

Can be due to structural, anatomical anomalies

No known cause

Question 8

Artic disorder characteristics

Answer 8

Errors in production of individual speech sounds

Distortion (lisps, nasalization)

Substitution (/w/ for /r/)

Question 9

What is phonological disorder?

Answer 9

Linguistic representation and focus on predictable, rule-based errors that affect more than one sound

Question 10

Phonological disorder characteristics

Answer 10

Errors follow a generalized pattern for:
All fricatives becoming stops
All weak consonants are omitted