Speech Development and Speech Disorders

• Prelinguistic development
• Speech sounds during first fifty words
• Next five years of phonologic development
• Phonological processes during childhood
• Articulation/phonological disorders
• Dysarthria

Objectives

• Briefly describe phonological development - sounds that are mastered early in development and sounds mastered relatively late
• Define phonological process
• Describe syllable structure, substitution, and assimilatory processes common during early childhood
• Define dysarthria
• List some neuromuscular diseases that can cause speech sound production disorders in adults

Resources

• Speech and language developmental milestones
• Pre-linguistic development
• Speech sound disorders
• Phonological processes
• Dysarthria
• Dysarthria characteristics