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  • Social Language Skills groups focus on understand and enhancing communication and increasing confidence
    in social situations. Click HERE for more information and call 248-737-3430 for our next start dates.
  • Help your child learn to have positive experiences with food in a nurturing group setting. The KCC offers Feeding
    Groups periodically throughout the year. Call us at 248-737-3430 for more information and start dates.
Unintelligible Speech

Unintelligible speech is a descriptive term used subjectively by the listener. It can be due to a few minor consonant or vowel errors, oral-structural differences, oral-motor weakness, dysarthria or apraxia of speech. However, another casual factor to unintelligible speech, which even many professionals miss, is that of the faulty perception of language. Children who have difficulty processing and comprehending spoken language, particularly children who exhibit autistic spectrum disorders, may exhibit jargon (sometime called “gibberish”, or unintelligible speech). It is important to uncover whether a child has an unusual capacity to memorize dialogue, which doesn’t necessarily hold any meaning for them and are reiterating it the way they perceive it, without attaching meaning. In this case, the more emphasis there is upon improving processing and comprehension skills, the more improvement will be seen in increased intelligibility. Whereas, unintelligible speech rooted in the fine-motor coordination aspect of talking would require motor-speech or verbal motor work. Children may have both perceptual and motor-speech difficulties. If there are any questions regarding whether the child comprehends spoken language, attention should be given to comprehension and not necessarily motor-speech output.
 
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