Mispronunciation/Misarticulation

Communication Disorders

Beginning in the childhood, the person with deviant articulation or phonology (e.g. saying dod for dog, lam for ram , teater for teacher etc.) may experience unfavorable comments, teasing ,ostracism, exclusion, labeling and frustration.

Such experience may result in a low sense of personal worth with the accompanying attitudes of feeling different, incompetent, stupid, socially inept, or disliked. As these unfavorable attitudes continue to develop, they may affect academic performance and behavior. The person with atypical articulation may begin to 'play the part' of an atypical person. Grades my begin to drop, and disruptive behavior may become commonplace.

How is misarticulation diagnosed?

Speech language pathologist/speech therapist will administer an articulation test with a list of pictures/words which is scientifically designed to test the all speech sounds and they will do the video/Audio recording same time. After that they will do the appropriate analysis and diagnose the problem.

What treatments are available for misarticulation?

The speech language pathologist will teach the place and manner of articulation for the affected/misarticulated speech sounds .They will also work on auditory processing for those sounds. By early intervention we can make the person absolutely normal.