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03/06/2006

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Speaking to your toddle in simple sentences is often a great way to model appropriate sentence structure for labeling familiar objects, making requests, and describing people/objects within their environment!

Stuttering

Some speaking situations cause stuttering to increase more than others. Talking on the phone, speaking to an authority figure, meeting new people, speaking to larger audiences are considered in some cases as dysfluency inducing situations.

Autism

http://www.autism.com/

http://www.autism-society.org

http://www.autism.org/

Communication Disorders

http://www.healthtouch.com/bin/EContent_HT/SUB_HD.asp?

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Early Identification of Speech Disorders

http://www.kidsource.com/ASHA/early_identification.html

General Information

http://www.asha.org

Oral-Facial Abnormalities

http://www.widesmiles.org/

http://www.cleftline.org/

http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/birth_defect/cleft_lip_palate.html

Stuttering (Fluency Disorders)

http://www.stuttering.com/

http://www.stutteringhelp.org/

http://www.stuttering.net/

Did you know?.....
	Stuttering appears to frequently run in families. There is also evidence that stuttering may be closely associated with some neurological deficits. Quite often, psychological components may make symptoms appear worse or even better in some cases.

Articulation Difficulties
	R, S, and L sounds are commonly mispronounced by most children between the ages of 2-5. These sounds are some the hardest to produce in our English language.