The SLP's Guide to Speech Sound Disorders: Articulation & Phonological Development - SLP Now

A blog created for SLPs--by SLPs! Featuring therapy ideas and resources to helps busy SLPs streamline their caseload management. This is a guest blog post by Holly, a school-based SLP, all about speech sound disorders: articulation and phonological development. This post is a comprehensive guide to speech sound disorders, which is an umbrella term used to categorize difficulty with the production of speech sounds (the ASHA Practice Portal page for Speech Sound Disorders is a great reference for this topic). There are speech sound disorders with known underlying causes (organic) including cleft lip/palate, orofacial conditions, deafness, dysarthria, and apraxia (check out this post for more information on childhood apraxia of speech). In this post, we’ll focus on types without a known cause (functional), including articulation and phonological disorders. We’ll take a deep dive into these terms, but for now, here’s a quick refresher: An articulation disorder is characterized by difficult

A blog created for SLPs--by SLPs! Featuring therapy ideas and resources to helps busy SLPs streamline their caseload management. This is a guest blog post by Holly, a school-based SLP, all about speech sound disorders: articulation and phonological development. This post is a comprehensive guide to speech sound disorders, which is an umbrella term used to categorize difficulty with the production of speech sounds (the ASHA Practice Portal page for Speech Sound Disorders is a great reference for this topic). There are speech sound disorders with known underlying causes (organic) including cleft

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