What Is Severe Phonological Disorder

Phonological disorder is a type of speech sound disorder. Speech sound disorders are the inability to correctly form the sounds of words. Speech sound disorders also include articulation disorder, disfluency, and voice disorders.

What causes severe phonological disorder?

What causes phonological process disorders? More common in boys, causes are mostly unknown. A family history of speech and language disorders, hearing loss, developmental delays, genetic diseases and neurological disorders all appear to be risk factors for phonological process disorders.

What is a severe phonological delay?

A phonological delay is a type of speech sound disorder. When a child has a phonological delay they are following a typical pattern of speech development but are demonstrating developmental phonological errors that typically should have disappeared 6 or more months earlier.