Approaches to Management of Fluency Disorders: The management of fluency disorders involves three stages. Establishment of Fluency Generalization of Fluency Maintenance of Fluency Establishment of Fluency Establishment of fluency is easy and can be achieved using a...
Assessment and Diagnosis of Fluency Disorder: Individuals are referred to a speech-language pathologist (SLP) for a comprehensive assessment when disfluencies are noted and when one or more of the factors listed below are observed along with the disfluencies. A...
Issues related Bilingualism and Multilingualism: When we consider Bilingualism or Multilingualism in language development or the probable condition that bi/multilingualism may confuse the child leading to delay in language learning. One of the biggest concerns that...
Causes of Speech and Language disorders: Speech and Language disorder may be caused because of absence of proper biological prerequisites or may exist because of other disorders and disabilities like ASD, ADHD etc. Biological Prerequisites include Apparatus of the...
Incidence and Prevalence of Speech and Language disorders: “Incidence” of spoken language disorders refers to the number of new cases identified in a specified time period. No reliable data on the incidence of spoken language disorders in children were...
Definition and descriptions of Impairment, Disability and Handicap: WHO in 1980, draws a three fold distinction between the Impairment, Disability and Handicap. Impairment: Impairment is any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical structure...
