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Speech or Language Impairment, One formal measure of child's pitch,…
Speech or Language Impairment
Defintion
Communication disorder in the area of articulation, voice, fluency, or language that adversely affects the child's educational performance
Evaluative Component
Articulation/ Phonological Disorder
Written documentation of a stimulability assessment as part of the formal measure
Written documentation of the impact of intelligibility on connected speech
Documentation of an examination of oral structures and functioning
Voice Disorder
Medical evaluation by a physician
Criteria
Articulation
Errors are primarily characterized by substitutions, distortions, additions, and omissions
Does not meet the criteria for an articulation disorder
Voice
Voice is abnormal in vocal quality, pitch, loudness, resonance or duration.
Voice is inappropriate for the child's age and gender
Not a temporary problem
Fluency
Abnormally dysfluent speech is observed during conversation
Ability to communicate is affected
Language
Syntactic, morphologic, semantic, and/or pragmatic errors are observed
Dialectal differences or English as a second language is not considered
One formal measure of child's pitch, loudness, quality, inflection and resonance