What is lisps?
A lisp is a Functional Speech Disorder (FSD) or a kind of communication disorder where a child faces difficulty producing the /s/ and /z/ sounds. According to statistics, about 42 million adults and children in the US have a communication disorder (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders). Of them around 14 million suffer from a speech, voice, or language disorder which is not associated to hearing loss..
At times, a child has difficulties with other sounds such as J, ch and sh as well. Lisping affects 10 percent of the population and around 9 percent need serious treatment by an occupational therapist in Sydney. Lisping has no clear known cause and is generally referred to as a speech delay of unidentified origin.
Lisps and kid’s academic life
Many kids lisp at certain phases of speech development, but also may be experiencing apraxia of speech. They may experience this condition particularly when they lose their front primary teeth. This condition is at times also called a developmental phonetic disorder subsequently. About 5 percent of first graders have FSD. It is worth noting that around 50–70 percent of all kids having this condition face tough time academically all through elementary school and high school. FSDs may persist into teenage years and middle age as ‘residual errors’. It is possible to treat these disorders.
Types of lisps
Lisps falls into 4 categories which are characterised by their particular substitution patters. These include:
- The lateral lisp. This condition sounds wet as the air flows around the tongue that is in regular place to make the l sound.
- The interdental. This happens when the tongue projects between the front teeth and the s or z is pronounced like th .,
- The palatal lisp. In this condition the centre of the tongue touches the soft palate, or mouth’s upper part while trying to make the sound s.
- The dentalised lisp. This kind of lisps is also called dentalised production. It takes place when the tongue presses against the front teeth.
Symptoms
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- Slow speech
- Slurred speech
- Rapid speech
- Nasal, raspy or strained voice
- Uneven speech rhythm
- Uneven speech volume
- Difficulty moving your tongue or facial muscles
Diagnosis
- If you think your child has lisps you need to head to a paediatric speech pathologist & occupational therapists in Sydney. A physical can determine if your kid has structural irregularities inside the mouth or if there are issues with his hearing. But remember that real assessment of a child’s ability to make sounds must be done by a speech-language pathologist. Your speech-language pathologist will check child’s medical history and he will examine the mouth’s anatomy. The speech and reading aloud is generally recorded for diagnosis as well.
Treatment
Lisps typical treatment is known as articulation therapy, some children experiencing lisps may also have autism spectrum disorder Sydney. The speech-language pathologist determines if the child can hear proper speech sounds. He reads out word lists having particular sounds that the child is having problems articulating. Their treatment proceeds to working on the position in the word where the sound takes place. Treatment also includes you think exercises leading to participation in controlled conversations; often referred to as speech therapy for children in Sydney.
