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        Learning Disabilities
        What is an Initial Referral Conference?
        What is an Initial Referral Conference?
        Teachers and parents meet to voice concerns about a student’s learning progress and whether to refer the child for additional evaluation.
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        What are Referral Questions?
        What are Referral Questions?
        Questions from various parties concerned about a child’s learning and developmental progress or problems.
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        What is Diagnostic Evaluation?
        What is Diagnostic Evaluation?
        A detailed assessment conducted by a specialist related to a specific developmental or learning issue.
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        What is Childhood Dysarthria?
        What is Childhood Dysarthria?
        The motor speech disorder that involves difficulty with the sensorimotor control processes is called childhood dysarthria. Childhood dysarthria is involved in the production of speech, typically that of motor programming and execution. This can be a result of a neurological condition (neurofibromatosis), traumatic brain injury, or neurological impairment during or
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        What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)?
        What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)?
        Childhood apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder that involves issues with planning and programming of movement sequences that result in dysprosody and speech sound production errors. When compared to phonological impairment, childhood apraxia is quite rare as it occurs in about 1 to 2 children per one thousand.
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        What is Inconsistent Speech Disorder?
        What is Inconsistent Speech Disorder?
        `Inconsistent speech disorder, which is also known as inconsistent phonological disorder, is less common than phonological impairment. This disorder is characterized by inconsistent productions of the same word items (lexical) and is aligned with phonological assembly difficulty including difficulty with selecting and sequencing phenomes, without the accompaniment of oromotor difficulties.
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        What is Phonological Impairment?
        What is Phonological Impairment?
        Phonological impairment is one of the most common forms of speech sound disorder with cognitive linguistic difficulties that include the learning of the phonological system or language. Phonological impairment is characterized by pattern-based speech errors such as velar fronting. These errors may be delayed for a child’s age or disordered.
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        What are Speech Sound Disorders?
        What are Speech Sound Disorders?
        Speech sound disorders, often abbreviated as SSD, are a form of communication impairment that is characterized by five specific types of impairment that include phonological, articulation, childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), inconsistent speech disorder, and childhood dysarthria. Included in SSD is a difficulty perceiving, articulating, and phonologically demonstrating that which
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        What is a Learning Disability?
        What is a Learning Disability?
        Refers to underdeveloped skill in one or more areas, usually related to neurological disorders, and applies to students whose intelligence level is average or above. Students who are intellectually or developmentally disabled (IDD) have below-average intelligence, which affects their ability to learn. Students with learning disabilities can learn but consistently
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        What is Apraxia?
        What is Apraxia?
        Is the absence of voluntary muscle control. Regardless of how healthy the muscles may appear, the user has no control over them. The inability to intentionally move normally developed muscles has a substantial impact on academic success because students learn by doing and communicating. Learners with apraxia may benefit from
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