Childhood Disabilities & Disorders
- When to Seek Therapy
- Disabilities & Disorders
- ADHD/ADD
- Anxiety Disorders
- Apraxia of Speech, Childhood
- Articulation Disorders
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Birth Injuries
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder
- Cerebral Palsy
- Clubfoot
- Conduct Disorder
- Down Syndrome
- Elimination disorders (enuresis and encopresis)
- Failure to thrive/feeding disorder
- Fine and Gross Motor Delays
- Fluency/Stuttering
- Fracture
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Gait abnormalities
- Global Developmental Delay
- Hip dysplasia
- Language Delays
- Learning Disabilities
- Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
- Mental Retardation
- Mood Disorders
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Oral Motor Disorders
- Orthopedic conditions
- Osgood-Schlatter Disease
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- Pica
- Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood
- Reading Disorders
- Scoliosis
- Selective Mutism
- Sensory Processing Disorder
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Tic disorders
- Torticollis (Wry Neck)
- Additional Resources
Fluency/Stuttering
Fluency disorders are speech disorders, which refers to a lack of smoothness or flow with which sounds, syllables, words and phrases are joined together when speaking. Fluency disorders is a collective term for both cluttering and stuttering.
Stuttering is characterized by repeated or prolonged speech sounds or syllables in an uncontrollable manner, as well as ‘blocks’ (silence in which a child cannot produce a sound, syllable or word for varying lengths of time).
Cluttering, on the other hand, is characterized by speech with rapid speaking rate, erratic rhythm, poor syntax or grammar, frequent false starts and revisions, and words or groups of words unrelated to the sentence.
Fluency disorders are more common in boys than in girls.
