Category:Speech Impairment

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Speech impairment (Speech defect) Regular, involuntary deviation from the norms of speech.

1. Stuttering (Stammering) Halting articulation with interruptions to the normal flow of speech and repetition of the initial consonants of words or syllables. It usually appears in childhood and the symptoms are most severe when the stammerer is under any psychological stress.
2. Cluttering Erratic unrhythmical way of speaking in rapid jerky bursts. It can make speech hard to understand, and speech therapy is usually helpful.
3. Festination Abnormal increase of speed while speaking.
4. Rhotacism Defective use of “r.”

Speech disorders Serious abnormality in the system underlying the use of spoken language.

1. Dysphonia Partial loss of ability to use the vocal folds and produce normal voice.
2. Dyslalia Disorder of articulation that has no clear physical cause.
3. Dysprosody Loss of ability to produce speech with a normal intonation.
4. Dysrhythmia Loss of ability to produce normal rhythm in speech production.
5. Dysarthria (Anarthia) Motor speech disorder that leaves someone unable to articulate speech sounds.
6. Apraxia Loss of ability to carry out voluntary muscular movements for the production of speech.

Mutism Involuntary inability to speak.

Aphonia Total loss of voice.

1. Hysterical aphonia Loss of voice caused by emotional trauma or hysterical behavior.
2. Intermittent aphonia Loss of voice that is not constant. The voice is gone or distorted for a time and then returns to normal.

Alaryngeal Said of speech without the larynx.

Speech pathology Speaking analysis.

1. Language pathology Language analysis.
2. Logopedics (AmE) (BrE, Logopaedics) Speech education.
3. Speech therapy Therapy to correct speaking problems.

Spectrograph Instrument that gives a visual representation of the acoustic features of speech sounds in the form of a spectrogram.