Sind mundmotorische Übungen für die Therapie von Artikulationsstörungen bzw. phonologischen Störungen sinnvoll?

[Speech sounds and their representation for diagnosis]

The assessment of articulation disorders includes, among other things, identifying which speech sounds or sound combinations cannot yet be realized properly. To this end, it is necessary to transcribe children's utterances and thus preserve them for analysis. Transcriptions can be performed using the alphabet, or by means of phonetic or phonological transcription using the International Phonetic Association (IPA) alphabet or the extended IPA alphabet (extIPA). Articulation disorders can only be adequately documented by means of transcription; however, this requires a certain amount of practice. The main features of IPA transcription are outlined here.

Auswirkungen rezidivierender Paukenerg�sse auf den Spracherwerb

Otitis media with effusion (OME) may have adverse effects on children's cognitive, language, speech and psychosocial development. This has been demonstrated using several lines of research, the results of which, however, are not unequivocal. The question of how OME can interact with language, speech and cognitive development is also a subject of debate. According to the acoustic-phonetic theory, reduced perceptual ability during episodes of OME results in a degraded representation of subphonemic features of speech sounds, leading to speech delay. The mediated theory holds that fluctuant hearing loss endangers diffuse cognitive-linguistic effects, affecting speech perception and production.