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Speech disorders - Symptom

Alternative Names

Articulation deficiency; Voice disorders; Disfluency

Symptoms:

Disfluency:

  • Repetition of sounds, words, or phrases after age 4
  • Frustration with attempts to communicate
  • Head jerking while talking
  • Eye blinking while talking
  • Embarrassment with speech

Articulation Deficiency:

  • Unintelligible speech by age 3
  • Leaves out consonants at the beginning of words by age 3
  • Leaves out consonants at the end of words by age 4
  • Persistent problems with articulation after age 7
  • Leaves out sounds where they should occur
  • Distorts sounds
  • Substitutes an incorrect sound for a correct one

Voice disorders:

  • Pitch deviations
  • Deviations in the loudness and quality of the voice

Signs and tests:

  • Denver Articulation Screening Examination
  • Early Language Milestone Scale
  • Denver II
  • Peabody Picture Test Revised
  • Reviewed last on: 4/22/2008
  • Alan Lipkin, MD, Otolaryngologist, Private Practice, Denver, Colorado. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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