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Child Speech Difficulties

      Children can present with a number of different speech difficulties. A qualified speech therapist / pathologist can provide assessment, advice and therapy to help with many of these difficulties. Click on the links below to read more about child speech difficulties and the things you can do to improve speech: Child Voice …

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Apraxia of Speech

      Apraxia of speech (also called developmental childhood apraxia of speech, verbal dyspraxia, developmental dyspraxia)can cause a child to have severe speech difficulties. The difficulties arise when the child is unable to coordinate the muscles of speech accurately and smoothly to produce sounds, syllables and words.  To explain it simply, the signals from …

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Phonological Speech Disorders

A delay with the development of Phonological Awareness is one of the most common reasons that a child has a speech delay. What is Phonological Awareness? This is the ability to recognise sounds in spoken language. We need these skills to help us understand language and learn to read. We use phonological awareness to pick …

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Speech Problems & Articulation Difficulties

      Many children do not have a serious speech problems or impairments (phonological disorder or dyspraxia), but just have speech articulation difficulties with a particular sound, or produce a sound incorrectly for no obvious reason. An example of a common articualtion problem would be a “lisp”. When a child has a difficulty with …

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Speech Difficulties & Disorders

As children are learning to talk, they will inevitably have difficulty articulating some sounds as their speech develops. Generally, they will learn to some say sounds earlier than others e.g. sounds like b, m, or w, are often some the first sounds they will produce when they start to babble. Other sounds, such as s, …

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Teacher resources

      Teacher resources is a section for teachers to share ideas, information and activities related to learning, speech, language, and literacy skills in the classroom. If you have anything you want to share, contact me on the icommunicate Facebook page and I can add things to this page.     Back to Resources …

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