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Could Nanny's Speech Impairment Affect Toddler's Speaking?

Children learn to speak from the speech of others. How children hear words pronounced and ordered into sentences, plays a big part in helping them learn the...

Is There Any Way I Can Help a Student Who is a Mute?

Selective mutism is a disorder in which a child speaks fluently in some settings, but does not speak at all in others. This means that the child has an age-a...

Is this a Speech Problem?

First of all do not worry as this happens to all of us at one point or another. Firstly the most obvious answer would be to suggest that you have currently b...

Son with 'Backing' Disorder: Any Exercises to Help Him?

A backing disorder is a phonological process in which sounds that are normally produced at the front of the mouth are produced at the back of the mouth inste...

What to With Problems Pronouncing 'Sh' and 'Ch'?

By age five children are usually able to pronounce the sounds “sh” and “ch” so the fact that your grandson is not able to pronounce these two sounds...

What Type of Speech Therapy Would Help my Grandson?

Speech delays are typical for younger children with Williams Syndrome, but two of the characteristics of older children with Williams Syndrome are strong spe...