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Children Age 3 - 18 years

Speech Sounds

  • ​articulation and phonology
  • delayed speech due to ear infections
  • phonological processes - patterns that young children use to simplify adult speech
  • diffculties associated with diagnosis causing week oral musculature

Apraxia of Speech

  •  difficulty planning tongue and lip movements for speech production. 

Orofacial Myology

  • tongue thrust or abnormal swallow
  • low rest posture of the tongue
  • open mouth posture / poor lip seal ​

Using Language 

  • grammar
  • vocabulary
  • word finding
  • producing sentences
  • telling stories

Understanding Language 

  • listening for comprehension
  • following directions
  • understanding linguistic concepts such as temporal concepts (e.g., before and after), location concepts (e.g., behind, in front)
  • understanding categorization - how words are grouped together​


​Adults

Lisping

  • interdental lisping  - when the tongue tip protrudes between the upper and lower teeth
  • lateral lisping - when airflow escapes over the sides rather than the midline of the tongue

Orofacial Myology

  • tongue thrust or abnormal swallow
  • low rest posture of the tongue
  • open mouth posture / poor lip seal 

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