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Articulation In Children

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To begin with, it is important to always remember that learning to produce proper speech sounds in words and phrases is a gradual process that demands adequate time. Speech sounds develop naturally, along with other signs of normal growth during the stages of infancy until a child's seventh or eighth year. Children develop speech abilities at different rates and ages. Firstly, babies begin by playing with sounds, then babble. This babble develops as children listen and imitate people around them. Undoubtedly, at the beginning, the majority of young children will find difficulty in differentiating speech sounds, as a consequence they will certainly be prone to making errors when mastering a wide range of sounds, however; a Speech sound disorder …show more content…

On the phonetic level, sounds can be omitted, added, distorted or substituted. These are the four prominent signs of Articulation Disorders and their most common examples any young child in possession of Articulation Disorder will apparently encounter. Firstly, substitution, which is the replacement of one certain sound for another, often with a similar place or manner of articulation, such as, substituting the r sound in the word rabbit with a w sound and saying (wabbit) instead. Secondly, addition, which depends on inserting an extra sound or sounds within a word; such as the addition of the 'uh' sound in (puhlane) when actually trying to say plane. Thirdly, there is omission, which is the act of deleting certain sounds and not producing them; such as saying (cu) instead of cup, or (poon) for …show more content…

There are several various levels of severity of phonological disorder that range from a speech that is entirely not understandable, even to a child's immediate family members, to a speech that can almost be comprehended by everyone, regardless of some sounds that are slightly mispronounced. Moreover, Phonological Disorder is sorted into three categories either according to structural problems in any of the main articulators; such as in the tongue or the roof of the mouth or according to neurological hardships that are associated with the muscles of the mouth that do not provide the child with sufficient fine motor control over the muscles to create all speech sounds or according to slight brain abnormalities, that cause immature development of the neurological

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Some children may have conditions such as Dyslexia, ADHD, Downs Syndrome or Autism, which will cause their communication to be different. They may find it hard to interpret what an adult is asking them to do or they may not be able to communicate what they want to say in a way for an adult to understand them. Hearing and Physical impairments will also have an effect on communication. Hearing impairments in a child or adult will create a barrier in communication where the listener will have to use a different form of communication such as sign language or using pictures and gestures. Physical impairments would include disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy or Spina Bifida in the child or adult.

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I first discovered speech-language pathology back when I was in high school, in a very unexpected way. I was talking with my grandmother, who had told me she received her Masters degree in Speech-Language Pathology after my father was born. My father has had hearing aids since the age of five, and had to continuously attend speech therapy while growing up. My grandmother told me stories of how she would sit with my father every night, away from his six other siblings, with the lights off and talk to him. She would say words to him, which he would then have to repeat back to her, without relying on his normal trick of reading lips.

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Communication and language development would not however be an automatic feature as part of a childâ€TMs development and is almost entirely dependent on the process of learning. In the early years the child would learn from parents and older siblings, using simple words and hand gestures. As the child matures they would gain more of an understanding of language through teachers and more commonly, socially through friends. They would gain more skills in learning how to communicate and understand

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Their first words are late and may be missing sounds. They may only utilize a few consonant and vowel sounds. And they have a problem combining sounds and may have disrupted or lengthened transitions between sounds. Although all children have difficulty with speech phonotactic errors, consonant harmony, and final consonant deletion in the first 12-18 months of life, children with CAS have these issue persist past the age of 3 (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2007). They also may simplify words by replacing difficult sounds by easier ones or deleting more difficult sounds all

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In his essay "Speech Communities," Paul Roberts mentions the importance and impact speech communities have on an individual's form of speech. According to Paul Roberts language is always changing due to three distinct features: age, social class, and geography. All which are the basis for forming speech communities and causing then to eventually adapt and evolve. When discussing the speech communities of a child, Roberts makes an intriguing point. He states that no matter what speech habits were engraved in a child from birth through its parents, they are all prone to change once they interact with a different speech community such as school.

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The sounds are taught in a particular way, not to sound like the letters for example, the sound for t would be taught as this short sound and not as 'tee' or 'tuh. The simpler and most commonly used sounds will be the first to be taught, as these are also straightforward (s, a, t, l, p and n).These can then be put together to form many simple three- letter words, which can be sounded out by children from a relatively early stage (for example, p-i-n' or c-u-p). Children's confidence usually develops quickly and they can sound out different words quite easily as they start to blend combinations of sounds together an important stage of this process. As children

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Phonological Awareness Training plus Letter Knowledge Training is a “general practice aimed at enhancing young children’s phonological awareness, print awareness, and early reading abilities” (website). This practice is adding two skills together, phonological awareness and letter knowledge training. Phonological awareness itself is the awareness of the sound structure of words is understanding that words are composed of phonemes, “the smallest units of sound in spoken words” (Smith, Simmons, & Kame’enui) and can be manipulated to make new words and involves training activities to teach children to “identify, detect, delete, segment, or blending segments of spoken words”( wwc) . According to Smith et al (1998), phonological awareness can be

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The Communist movement began to receive attention in the late 19th century from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which later went into effect for the first time during the early 20th century with Vladimir Lenin of Russia. The primary reason for the entire Communist movement to take place was an oppressed working class and a government built on corruption. Communism is defined as a political theory advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. This movement encouraged a strong opposition from pro-democracy countries across the globe such as America. Since the origins of the communist movement, the anti-communist movement has been just as prevalent in a rather responsive manner by essentially attempting to shutdown all advancements pro-communist countries have made.

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Children must mature to a certain point before they can gain some skills. For example, the brain of a six-month-old has not matured enough to allow the child to talk. A six-month-old will babble and coo. However, by three years of age, with the help of others, the child will be able to say and understand many words. This is how cognitive development occurs from simple tasks to more complex tasks.

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