The youngest clients who receive services from speechlanguage pathologists are neonates
with medical needs. This area of care came into being during the last several decades as …

Statewide birth certificate and exceptionality records were integrated to examine potential
risk factors for isolated speech impairment (SI), specific language impairment (SLI), and …

PPROXIMATELY one child per thou-sand is born deaf. An additional two to three per
thousand develop profound hearing loss in early childhood. Apart from craniofacial …

The study evaluated the relationship between risk factors and speech disorders. The parents
of 65 children with functional speech disorders (aged 2; 7− 7; 2) and 48 normally speaking …

Between 5% and 12% of children ages 2 to 5 years are diagnosed with a speech or
language delay. Fifty percent of these children experience delays that persist into …

Language and speech development is complex. Problems are common-the commonest of
the preschool problems encountered in surveillance. There is wide variation in …

Objective: To describe the reported prevalence, comorbidity and socioeconomic status
(SES) of children with speech disorders. Methodology: Data from the 1995 Australian Health …

Following the introduction defining the term 'speech disorder'and describing the physiology
of the speech mechanism, the various types of speech disorder occurring in children are …

There is ample evidence that children who are born preterm are at risk for language
impairment [1-3]. However, not all children who are born preterm will experience difficulty …

S peech and language are learned behaviors. This is a frequently unrecognized fact
because the “teaching" ofspeech and language to infants is a commonplace activity, carried …