HAWAII VOICE AND SPEECH STUDIO
  • Home
  • About
  • Telepractice
  • Services
  • Forms and Policy
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Self-Service Scheduling

Will he outgrow his speech problem?

10/29/2019

0 Comments

 
 ​How do we know if a child will “outgrow” a developmental speech problem? The truth is we don’t know. Speech is such a complicated miracle of life which involves the coordination of multiple areas of the brain, multiple mouth and facial muscles, as well as coordination of the respiratory system and the vocal tract. There are simply too many places where the coordination might have a “hiccup.” Other factors that affect “knowing” whether a misarticulation will resolve itself includes the diversity of human beings. There are simply too many variables to neatly determine in a laboratory how a child will perform the multitude of mental, motor, and social tasks necessary to have coherent and easy conversation.
 
Some of the cues that we have in available to us in assessing a child’s speech development are charts that plot the “typical” development of speech in English speaking children. However, it is important to understand these charts and what they truly mean. Often times, I find that even professionals who work with children, such as pediatricians and early education teachers, misunderstand what these charts mean.
 
Here in lies an explanation:

Read More
0 Comments

    Trissa DiBenedetto WAlter 

    Is a singer, voice teacher, speech language pathologist, and certified vocologist

    Archives

    July 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    October 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    October 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    February 2017
    May 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Home

About

Services

Contact

BLOG

Copyright © 2020
  • Home
  • About
  • Telepractice
  • Services
  • Forms and Policy
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Self-Service Scheduling