Speech sound disorders affect more children than any other developmental communication
disorder and are associated with long-term social and academic difficulties. The diversity of …

Speech-disordered children are not a homogeneous group in terms of ætiology, severity,
surface error patterns or response to specific treatment approaches. Previous research has …

Phonological acquisition has been a major research topic for the past three decades.
Several different theoretical concepts, accounting for the course of phonological acquisition …

The linguist David Crystal once raised the question of whether or not a monolingual English-
speaking speech-language pathologist (SLP) would ever need to know something about …

It is generally accepted that children with speech sound disorders show error patterns
similar to those of younger typically developing children (Beers, 1995; Dinnsen, Chin, Elbert …

Developmental speech disorder affects up to 10% of the pre-school English-speaking
population. However, speech disorder in Putonghua or Modern Standard Chinese (MSC) …

This study investigated the possibility that similar speech error patterns in children may arise
from different patterns of underlying speech processing difficulties. Four Greek children …

How phonological disorders should be categorized in Turkish children remained vague for a
long period of time due to a lack of normative studies. This paper reports the phonological …

Twenty-four French-speaking children with developmental phonological disorders (DPD)
were matched on percentage of consonants correct (PCC)-conversation, age, and receptive …

Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs) is a generic term used to describe a range of difficulties
producing speech sounds in children. The foundations of clinical assessment, classification …