Articulation Disorders In Children
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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The articulation screening process begins during the kindergarten and first elementary grades. The screening is a broad sweeping attempt to identify children with articulation, or pronounciation, problems.
The screening process uses dialogues between the tester and the child to observe articulation, overall language function, voice quality and speech fluency. Because of many childrensO shyness towards testers it is often necessary to test several times, gathering information from small speech samples.
The most common articulation errors identified are distortions and substitutions for /S/,/Z/,W/L, and W/R.
Because most children do grow out of their articulation disorders, the best screening test can ideally distinguish between those who will simply out grow their problems and those who need remediation. This is usually accomplished, as in the Van Reper and...