Cerebral Palsy Speech Analysis

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Promoting a better understating of speech production in children with Cerebral Palsy helps further the knowledge of solutions. Through these three articles, multiple studies shine a light on the speech characteristics that Cerebral Palsy children endure. The studies are investigated in hopes that the disabled children will receive the appropriate treatment for their specific disorder. For the past three years I have been working with a young girl under 12 years old who has Cerebral Palsy. Every morning I get her day started from waking her up to dropping her off at school. Through this research project I hope to further my education into her disability. Going over homework with her I see her struggle with certain letters, words and phrases. …show more content…

The research question posed in the first article by Himmelmann, Lohmander, Minscalco and Nordberg, they ask, what is the connection between children with Cerebral Palsy and speech, language and communication disorders? In the second article by Lohmander, Miniscalco and Nordberg, they ask, what are the speech impairments of young children at various cognitive levels with Cerebral Palsy? The question in the last article by Minscalco, Nordberg and Sandberg they ask, how do the story telling skills vary in children with different types of Cerebral Palsy? All three articles discuss pathways to successfully exceeding a child with Cerebral Palsy’s learning, speaking and overall communication abilities. Through numerous studies of children with all types of Cerebral Palsy, each publication is able to identify, assess and offer useful treatments to each …show more content…

2005, Nordberg et al. 2013, 2014), making it difficult for them to communicate their thoughts.’” (Nordberg et al. 2015). Each child needs an equal right to communicate but unfortunately the effects of Cerebral Palsy have stripped many children of this ability. Thanks to the efforts of many Speech Pathologists and Audiologists children are obtaining more access to better speech production tools and programs. Each of these articles looks to use these studies to find specific ways to help children with each type of Cerebral

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