How does speech impairment affect communication?

Children with severe speech impairments may not development normal communication skills (psychosocial disorder). Adults and children alike may feel shame, embarrassment, frustration, anger, and depression as a result of speech impairments. Speech impairments can be very isolating if you let them be.

What can cause speech difficulties?

Common conditions that can lead to speech disorders are:

autism.
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
strokes.
oral cancer.
laryngeal cancer.
Huntington’s disease.
dementia.
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

What is a speech difficulty?

Speech difficulties are a type of speech, language and communication need (SLCN). Many children take longer to develop a range of speech sounds and need some help with their unclear speech. Speech difficulties include: Difficulty with telling the difference between sounds.

What part of the brain causes speech problems?

It involves damage to a part of the brain known as Broca’s area. Broca’s area is responsible for speech production. People with Broca’s dysphasia have extreme difficulty forming words and sentences, and may speak with difficulty or not at all.

What causes speech delay?

A delay in speech development may be a symptom of many disorders, including mental retardation, hearing loss, an expressive language disorder, psychosocial deprivation, autism, elective mutism, receptive aphasia and cerebral palsy. Speech delay may be secondary to maturation delay or bilingualism.

What is the most common type of communication disorder?

Following are some of the most common speech disorders that speech therapists treat.

Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders.
Receptive Disorders.
Autism-Related Speech Disorders.
Resonance Disorders.
Selective Mutism.
Brain Injury-Related Speech Disorders/Dysarthria.
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms.

What is it called when you can’t speak properly?

Dysarthria means difficulty speaking. It can be caused by brain damage or by brain changes occurring in some conditions affecting the nervous system, or related to ageing. It can affect people of all ages. If dysarthria occurs suddenly, call 999, it may be being caused by a stroke.