Question

What is the speech abnormality you identify in the given scenario?

Answer 1

Speech-language deficits are the most common of childhood disabilities and affect about 1 in 12 children or 5% to 8% of preschool children. The consequences of untreated speech-language problems are significant and lead to behavioral challenges, mental health problems, reading difficulties,and academic failure including in-grade retention and high school dropout. Yet, such problems are ones that are least well detected in primary care, even though intervention is available and plentiful.Speech-language impairments embrace a wide range of conditions that have, at their core, challenges in effective communication. As the term implies, they include speech disorders which refer to impairment in the articulation of speech sounds, fluency, and voice as well as language disorders which refer to impairments in the use of the spoken system and may involve the form of language, the content of language, and the function of language.These may also be described more generally as communication disorders which are typically classified by their impact on a child's receptive skills and expressive skills. The etiology of most cases of speech-language impairments is unknown but diverse causes are suspected. The range of causes or origins includes anatomical abnormalities, cognitive deficits, faulty learning, genetic differences, hearing impairments, neurologic impairments, or physiologic abnormalities. As noted above, language differences as revealed in the communication output associated with diverse cultural, ethnic, regional or social dialects are not considered disorders. Speech and language impairments may be acquired.