Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center

Motor Speech Disorders specialists evaluate and provide therapy for preschool and school-aged children with speech impairments that appear to have a significant motoric component. This is in contrast to verbal expressive disorders that are not motoric in nature (developmental articulation or language disorders and phonologic disorders). Impairments that would fall into the category of motor speech disorders include dysarthria (muscle weakness or incoordination related to neurologic disease) and childhood apraxia of speech (difficulty sequencing oral muscular movements to produce speech sounds and syllable patterns). In addition, this team provides therapy for children with oral myofunctional disorders, such as speech impairment related to a restricted lingual frenum, or frenulum (“tongue tie”), and tongue thrusting.

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