Speech and language services concentrate on communication areas including language, articulation, voice, and/or fluency for students birth to age 21. This service can also aid in broadening areas of academic and functional needs.
Speech/Language Pathologists’ main responsibilities are working in the areas of articulation (speech production), voice (which involves pitch, quality and volume), and fluency (which is sound/syllable repetitions, blocking and use of conversation “fillers”). Speech/Language Pathologists also work in the area of language, which is described in more detail below. They are responsible for diagnostic testing in all of the above areas.
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Iowa-Nebraska Articulation Norms
Listed below are the recommended ages of acquisition for phonemes and clusters, based generally on the age at which 90% of the children correctly produced the sound.
AGE
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FEMALES
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MALES
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3
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b, p, m, n, h, w, d, g, k, f
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p, b, m, t, d, k, h, f
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4
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y, t, kw, voiced th
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g
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5
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f, v, l, pl ,bl, kl, gl, fl
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f, v, y, tw, kw
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6
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sh, ch, j, l, voiceless th
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l, l blends
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7
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s, z, s blends, ing
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ch, sh, j, voiced th, ing, s, z, s blends
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8
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r, pr, br, dr, gr, kr, fr, er
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voiceless th, r, r blend, er
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9
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thr, str, spr, skr
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thr, str, spr, skr
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