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SPEECH IMPAIRMENTS
- Speech impairments may have many
causes: hearing loss, illness, injury, and
congenital or psychological conditions.
Speech impairments are found alone and
in combination with other disabilities.
- Speech impairments range from
problems with articulation or voice
strength to an inability to speak at all. Unless
the impairment is recent, students with speech
impairments generally have had some speech
therapy.
- Among the more common speech
impairments encountered are: hearing
loss, illness, injury, and congenital or
psychological conditions. Speech impairments are
found alone and in combination with other
disabilities. Speech impairments range from
problems with articulation or voice strength to
an inability to speak at all. Unless the
impairment is recent, students with speech
impairments generally have had some speech
therapy.
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Among
the more common speech impairments encountered
are stammering, chronic hoarseness, difficulty
in evoking an appropriate word or term, and
esophagal speech (resulting from a
laryngectomy).
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