What are the various types of speech disorders?

Answer 1

Speech impediments, also referred to as speech disorders occur when normal speech is disrupted. It can be developmental in that most children will generally go through a stage of disfluency i.e stammering, fronting (cat is pronounced as tat) or lisping and gliding r (red pronounced as wed). Certain sounds develop at different stages of childhood and that is why these developmental errors occur. However, if these persist beyond the appropriate age, you should seek a speech and language therapist who will diagnose and treat the speech disorder.

Answer 2

NEUROLOGICAL

Stuttering: Involuntary repetition of words and sounds when speaking.

Cluttering: Similar to stuttering, it's characterized by rapid speech, poor grammer, and lack of fluency when speaking.

Dysprosody: The rarest neurological speech impediment. It is also known sometimes as pseudo-foreign dialect syndrome, as some people with the disorder take on accents. It is characterized by variations in melody, tone, timing, pauses, stresses, intensity, etc. when speaking.

Speech Sound Disorders: Involves difficulty in producing specific sounds (most often the letters /s/ and /r/).

Voice Disorders: Physical impairments, such as damage to the larynx or esophagus that make speaking difficult.

Dysarthria: A speech disorder that results from neurological damage from anything from a stroke to ALS. The sufferer may loose control of the tongue, lips, throat, etc., which causes some words to sound warped. Swallowing problems are also commonly present.

Apraxia of Speech: Sometimes simply called Apraxia, it can be developmental or caused by neurological injury. It is sometimes mistaken by doctors for dyslexia, because the sufferer commonly rearranges the letters in words.