speech defect

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speech defect - a disorder of oral speechdefect of speech, speech disorderdisorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"anarthria - partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous systemaphonia, voicelessness - a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voicecataphasia - a speech disorder in which the same word is repeated several times in successiondysarthria - impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculaturedyslogia - impaired ability to express ideas verbally; usually resulting from difficulties of reasoning (as in feeblemindedness or certain psychoses)dysphonia - speech disorder attributable to a disorder of phonationlallation - defective articulation of the `l' phoneme or the phoneme `r' is pronounced as `l'lambdacism - speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l'lisp - a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'stammer, stutter - a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds

speech defect

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any condition that interferes with the mental formation of words or their physical production. Speech defects in children generally become apparent in the early school years. Speech problems may arise from organic or functional abnormalities, but in practice the two are often hard to differentiate. Organic defects include deafness, cleft palatecleft palate,
incomplete fusion of bones of the palate. The cleft may be confined to the soft palate at the back of the mouth; it may include the hard palate, or roof of the mouth; or it may extend through the gum and lip, producing a gap in the teeth and a cleft lip, which is
..... Click the link for more information. , dental abnormalities, and brain damage; most functional problems are basically psychological. Speech defects are generally categorized as disorders of sound production; disorders of voicing, e.g., loudness, pitch, and quality deviations; disorders of rhythm, such as stuttering and stammering; and disorders of language formulation and expression, including aphasiaaphasia
, language disturbance caused by a lesion of the brain, making an individual partially or totally impaired in his ability to speak, write, or comprehend the meaning of spoken or written words.
..... Click the link for more information. , the inability to use words as symbols of ideas. Treatment of a speech defect may include correction of organic conditions, psychotherapy, and training in proper articulation; it is rarely limited to a single type of therapy.

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noun a disorder of oral speech

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