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Difficulty with understanding and using language to communicate.
What to look for:
- Difficulty understanding what is being spoken, or while reading
- Difficulty formulating sentences to express wants, needs and thoughts
- Difficulty participating in conversations
- Difficulty following directions
- Difficulty planning, sequencing, and performing tasks
- Memory deficits
- Difficulty asking and answering questions
- Difficulty with stating names/words and/or meaning of words
- Difficulty sustaining attention
- And more
Difficulty producing speech sounds correctly.
What to look for:
- Substituting another speech sound for the correct speech sound
- Omitting the sound altogether and/or distortion of the speech sound
Speech consists of repetitions, blockages and prolongations during communication.
What to look for:
- Repetitions, blockages, and prolongations of syllables, part of words, whole words, phrases, and/or sentences
- Uncontrolled movements of the body while talking
- Noisy breathing, clicking sounds, and/or poor eye contact during communication
Affects the production of the speech sounds.
What to look for:
- Hoarse/harsh/strained voice
- Nasality
- Effortful speech
- Breathy speech
- Monotone speech
- Speech is too loud or too quiet
- Speech is too fast or too slow
- Mumbled/garbled/muffled/ speech
- Distorted speech
- Slurred and/or difficult to understand speech
Difficulty eating and drinking.
what to look for:
- Holding solids and liquids in the mouth
- Chewing for an extended amount of time
- Difficulty manipulating and coordinating solids and liquids in the mouth
- Drooling or leakage of solids/liquids in the mouth
- Coughing during and/or after eating and drinking
- Choking
- Dehydration
- Malnutrition
- Wet/gurgle vocal quality
- Aspiration of solids/liquids (entering the airway)