What speech problems needs therapy?
Speech problems are of three kinds. These are articulation disorders, resonance or voice disorders, and fluency disorders.
- Articulation Disorders. Articulation disorders are problems with physical features used for articulation such as the lips, tongue, teeth, hard and soft palate, jaws and inner cheeks. Any one with articulation disorder experiences problem producing words or syllables properly.
- Resonance or voice disorders. Voice Disorders cover problems regarding phonation or the production of the raw sound itself. An example of this is when the sound produced by the larynx or voice box seems to be muffled, nasal, intermittent, weak, too loud or any other characteristic not pertaining to normal.
- Fluency Disorders. Fluency Disorders include problems like stuttering.This is a speech problem where your speech is constantly interrupted by blocks, fillers, stoppages, repetitions or sound prolongations.Talking too fast such that people can’t understand you is another fluency disorder called cluttering.