Speech Impairment
Articulation & Fluency
Rita Salazar Samantha Lucio
Characteristics of Articulation and Fluency Disorders
Strategies to Aid Articulation Problems
- Are not mostly intelligible by the age of 5
- Can only be understood by family members
- Leave off, substitute or change sounds in words
- Need Speech Therapy as quirks do not dissapear naturally
Works Cited
Rasinski, Timothy. "Fluency Matters." International Electronic Journal Of Elementary Education 7.1 (2014): 3-12. ERIC.
Klein, Edward. "Phonological/Traditional Approaches to Articulation Therapy:A Retrospective Group Comparison"
- Different causes for the problems
- For children who have trouble forming the correct tongue placement and mouth shape of words, extensive mimic strategies are used.
- For children who have trouble differentiating between consonants or vowels a treatment called Minimal and Maximum oppositions are used
- Ultimately with this disorder it is almost on a case by case process and is a combination of different strategies.
Fluency
Strategies to Aid Fluency: Stuttering and Cluttering
- Essential for success in learning how to read