Faculty Guide: Speech Impairment

Also see Accommodations and Communications

Speech impairments range from problems with articulation and voice strength to being nonverbal.

This can include:

• Stuttering
• Chronic hoarseness (dysphonia)
• Difficulty in evoking an appropriate word or term (nominal aphasia)
• Esophageal speech (resulting from a Laryngotomy) 
  

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