Severe speech disorders (SSD) are persistent specific deviations in the formation of components system (vocabulary, lexical and grammatical structure speech, phonemic processes, sound production, prosodic organization stream), which found children with preserved hearing normal intelligence [1]. Oral SSD is characterized by a strict limitation active vocabulary, agrammatisms, lack coherent skill...

The article describes the experience of work at Children's University Don State Technical University, where author's program for development oral and written speech is being implemented. Fragments lessons conducted using technology a pedagogical workshop are presented; set exercises that contribute to formation communicative linguocultural consciousness when working with non-traditional means -...

Background: Neuroimaging studies of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) have not revealed any systematic macrostructural abnormalities. Further, no studies have investigated connectivity of sensory-motor circuitries subserving speech and their possible changes after intervention in children with CAS. The first aim of this preliminary study was to identify possible altered neural networks in child...

Williams syndrome (WS) is a neurodevelopmental genetic disorder, often referred as being characterized by dissociation between verbal and non-verbal abilities, although the number of studies disputing this proposal is emerging. Indeed, although they have been traditionally reported as displaying increased speech fluency, this topic has not been fully addressed in research. In previous studies c...