The severity rating of developmental dysphasia by utterances from 5-7 years old patients

Abstract

The main topic of this article is to compare acoustic parameters of utterances from children with developmental dysphasia and healthy children in age 5-7 years. The goals of this article are establishing the voice and speech characteristics that show differences between children with developmental dysphasia on three levels of this disorder and healthy children.

These parameters should be helpful in the future to phoniatrists and clinical specialists to assess the current level of development of speech, the articulation and the severity assessment of speech disorder of these patients.