MY SPECIALTIES
ARTICULATION DISORDERS
Articulation disorders are a type of speech sound disorder where a child substitutes one sound for another (e.g., /w/ for /l/ as in "white" for "light") or distorts a sound, such as a frontal or lateral lisp. The majority of children can produce most speech sounds correctly by 5 years old.
PHONOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Phonological disorders are a type of speech sound disorder where a child demonstrates consistent patterns of sound substitutions or omissions that affect an entire class of sounds. For example, "velar fronting" is when a child consistently produces sounds made with the back of the tongue (/k/ and /g/) with the front of the tongue; therefore, /k/ becomes /t/ ("king" sounds like "ting") and /g/ becomes /d/ ("game" sounds like "dame"). Phonological processes often negatively impact a child's overall speech intelligibility.
