Developmental dysphasia is a speech disorder with normal hearing and intelligence, which develops against the background of organic brain damage in period up to 3 years life. In addition disorders dysphasia, motor coordinator, sensory (disturbances sensitivity perception), psychopathological manifestations can be noted. Diagnosis very difficult, requires exclusion loss mental illness. After suc...

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in children with various speech disorders. Also, identifying the factors causing these disorders early and providing proper support is increasingly important. If steps to correct such are not taken quickly, secondary issues, as communication, socialization, educational problems, observed. Training corrective measures should be carried out w...

Purpose To know the perception of the Community Health Workers (CHW) about the speech and language disorders. Method Cross-sectional study, which involved a questionnaire with questions related to the knowledge of CHW on speech and language disorders. The research was carried out with CHW allocated in the Centro Sanitary District of Florianópolis. Results We interviewed 35 CHW, being mostly...

been a commitment to the notion that the subtypes or dimensions of developmental speech sound disorders are organized on the basis of their etiology, and that the surface features of these disorders will reflect this multiple causal organization. Certain key points of this perspective are particularly prominent. First, etiology is key to the study of developmental communication disorders. This ...

Acquired neurogenic communication disorders can affect language, speech, or both. Although neurogenic speech disorders have been researched for a considerable time, much of this work has been restricted to a few languages (mainly English, with German, French, Japanese and Chinese also represented). Further, the work has concentrated on monolingual speakers. In this account, I aim to outline the...

In this talk we will give an overview of the different kinds of communication disorders. We will concentrate on communication disorders related to language and speech (i.e., not look at disorders like blindness or deafness). Speech and language disorders can range from simple sound substitution to the inability to understand or use language. Thus, a disorder may affect one or several linguistic...

Importance Speech/language, scholastic, and motor disorders are common in children. It is unknown whether exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) during pregnancy influences susceptibility to these disorders. Objective To examine whether SSRI exposure during pregnancy is associated with speech/language, scholastic, and motor disorders in offspring up to early adolescence. ...

Purpose This study explored the intervention processes used by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to treat children with speech sound disorders (SSDs). Method Semistructured, individual, in-depth interviews were conducted 11 Australian SLPs. Inductive content analysis was classify data provide a description of current for SSDs. Results Three main factors identified relating SLPs: (a) target se...

Lexical tones are a phonetic contrast necessary for conveying meaning in a majority of the world's languages. Various hearing, speech, and language disorders affect the ability to perceive or produce lexical tones, thereby seriously impairing individuals' communicative abilities. The number of tone language speakers is increasing, even in otherwise English-speaking nations, yet insufficient emp...