Improving the Child's Speech

ability articulation articulatory auditory become behavior cause chapter child's speech classroom teacher cleft palate condition consonants deficiency delayed speech difficult diphthong disability drill ear training emotional environment especially Eustachian tube example exercises factors feel foreign dialect function gum ridge handicap hard palate hard-of-hearing hard-of-hearing child hearing impairment hearing loss imitate important individual inner ear involved language larynx lips maladjustment malocclusion mechanism middle ear mouth nasal consonants nasal passages nasal resonance negative nasality normal nose oral oral consonant otitis media pairs parents perceptively impaired person phonetic pitch possible produce pronounced pronunciation pupil reading referred relaxed result situation soft palate speaking Speech Correction speech defect speech development speech disorder speech habits speech problems speech sounds speech therapist speech training spelling stuttering substitution syllable symptoms talk teeth tion tongue usually velum vocal vocal folds voice vowel words York