When children struggle to communicate, it can be difficult for them and their families. For every five children who have had a speech disorder in the past 12 months, according to an estimate from The National Institute Of Deafness And Other Communication Disorders (NID), two were reported as being overcome with therapy help from pathologists, which allowed these individuals to make most of what they’re able-bodied when communicating through sign language or alternative methods such getting along well without talking at all!

 

Speech therapists work to improve the way someone communicates by using speech and language therapy. A master’s degree is needed for this career, but some people go on to become professors or researchers who study different disorders in order create guidelines on what treatments will help them better understand their condition more completely than ever before!

What Is a Speech Disorder?

People use speech to make sounds and words, but it’s not always easy. There are many different kinds of disorders that can affect how you speak including having a raspy or stuttering voice (repeating certain sounds).

Language disorders range from not being able to understand what people are saying, talking or reading fully. There’s a lot more than just that though! You could have trouble enunciating sounds with your voice – either too low of volume which makes it hard on the listener or inappropriate melody resulting in muffled tones for everyone involved (not cool). It can also manifest as word finding difficulties when trying speak orally whereas someone might only need help composing written text since writing requires significantly greater motor skill demands compared simply speaking aloud any words whatsoever

Types of Speech disorder

Articulation disorder

Articulation disorders are a type of production error that involves substitutions, omissions or additions to speech sounds. These can interfere with the intelligibility and clarity of others listening in on your conversation so it is important not only to understand how they happen but also what people might do if you have this problem!

Articulation Disorder

Some people have a hard time talking and others can’t seem to stop. The reason for this may be that they are suffering from fluency disorders such as an uncommon rate, rhythm or repetition of sounds/syllables in the speech output which makes them difficult enough on their own but when combined with other symptoms it creates quite a challenge!

Voice disorders

Voice disorders are diagnosed when a person has an abnormal production or absence of vocal quality, pitch and volume that’s inappropriate for their age. There can also be problems with a resonance which affects the way sound waves travel through the air to reach your audience’s eardrums – this condition would not allow people to hear what you’re saying clearly even if they were sitting close enough!

Speech Disorder Causes

The causes of speech disorders are still being researched. They can vary from person to person, or even within one individual due to their unique genetic makeup and potential environmental exposure (e..g., toxins).

Brain Damage

Although the brain is responsible for controlling speech and other communication, it can be damaged in many ways. A child or adult may sustain damage to a portion of their own brains that impacts how they speak- some examples include traumatic injury caused by an accident; diseases such as stroke where cells become replace healthy ones too much, causing lackadaisical movement etc.; dementia which damages memory loss among others things affecting oral motor function.

Nervous system condition

The nervous system condition affects people’s brains and spinal cords. Some medication can cause problems with muscles in your mouth or vocal folds (your voice box) that are used for speaking clearly

The symptoms of this illness might make it hard to swallow foods properly, so you avoid eating at all until the pain goes away-or just have trouble chewing some ingredients like steak knives while cooking dinner!

Nerve Damage

Nerve damage occurs in the voice box, it can impact both sound production and quality of life. Vocal fold disorders such as aphonia ( inability to pronounce certain sounds), hair loss/thinning on one side due to vocal fatigue are common results of this condition which may require surgery if left untreated.

Common Speech Disorders You Watch Out

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

To talk, messages from the brain tell muscles around the mouth and throat to move. In childhood apraxia-a disorder where those same motor command signals don’t get through correctly due in part because of a spinal cord injury or illness -a child’s muscle strength may not be weak, but they can still not produce sounds with their vocal cords properly, so what you hear is silence instead.”

Dysarthria

The damage to the brain that causes a number of different things can cause dysarthria. It is often accompanied by other conditions, like speech apraxia and motor complications, but some people’s voices sound differently than they did before their injury.

Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders

The diagnosis of an Orofacial Myofunctional Disorder can be difficult for those who have never experienced it. However, there are many different symptoms that might indicate you’re experiencing OMD, including trouble breathing or talking because one’s tongue is too heavy due to muscle imbalance in the mouth area as well as keeping lips pressed together when at rest which affects how efficiently air flows through your body thus causing more difficulty with feeding oneself etc.

The other type of OMC is called tongue thrusting, which involves children pushing their tongues out when they try to talk or eat.

Speech Sound Disorders

Many people might think that speech sound disorders only affect children, but they can also happen in adults. Speech sounds are the most minor components of language, and it is important for those who use them to have good articulation skills so their words will come out how we want them to!

This sounds like something out of a superhero movie! People who have speech sound disorders often substitute one sound for another, add unfamiliar vocal noises in an attempt to make up for lost time and change what they say on the fly. These changes can be so significant that it becomes hard for others around them to understand anything they’re saying–especially those with accents where certain dialects are replaced by more mainstream ones or loan words from other languages such as Spanish, which may lead you into confusion over whether someone meant “yes” when asking if there’s room at your table because he/she said ‘ax.’

Stuttering

People who stutter have a hard time saying certain words, prolonging sounds or repeating them. Repetitions are known as blocks and prolongations of speech, respectively while everyone might do this once in a while it becomes an actual disorder when someone can’t communicate with others because his/her own self-confidence has been hurt from being told “you can’t talk”

Stuttering is a pretty common issue that affects many people. It can be caused by differences in children’s brains or related to family history, but there are other factors too – some as young as 2 years old! If your little one has been stammering for more than six months without treatment from an experienced speech pathologist, then it’s important you get them checked out ASAP so they don’t develop significant problems with communication skills later on down the road.

Aphasia

When a person’s brain damage affects the left side of the verbal intelligence, they may experience difficulties speaking or understanding verbal information. For example, someone with Aphasia might hear another individual speak but then have difficulty responding by producing the correct speech sounds; this can cause them to make mistakes when trying to communicate meaningfully–for instance, saying something like “I want water” instead of realizing that he/she meant ” Refresh my drink.” This disorder often leads individuals to forget words at times which causes fluent conversation skills to be compromised significantly because there is no longer enough practice making up new sentences on your own.

Selective Mutism

Selective mutism is an inability to speak in certain situations. A child might refuse to talk when they are afraid of being embarrassed or because it reminds them too much of something traumatic that happened previously.

A selective mute will often be shy and anxious due to their fear of embarrassment, which leads them not to want other people to know what’s going on inside their head.

Childhood Speech Delays

Language disorders are a very common issue in children. The most well-known type of language disorder, preschool alalia (or delayed speech), occurs when kids have trouble with receptive skills—the ability to follow directions and answer questions accurately while following what you say–but not expressive ones like asking queries or producing sentences on their own without help from others.”