Definitions

• Accent Reduction: Accent only becomes a problem-even a handicapping condition-for people in business, for example, when it prevents one's professional clients from focusing on the work at hand, says Lorna Sikorski of LDS Associates in Santa Ana, CA. The focus then becomes the accent and the professional exchange is seriously impeded. That's when the businessperson recognizes the need for accent modification.(1)
• Apraxia: Childhood apraxia of speech is a disorder of the nervous system that affects the ability to sequence and say sounds, syllables, and words. Detailed discussion
• Articulation: When we are say articulation we are talking about speech; the process by which sounds form words through the movement of the tongue, lips, teeth and jaw as air moves through the mouth.
• Attention: Definition forthcoming.
• Autism (Pervasive Disorders Spectrum PDD)
• Downs Syndrome: Definition forthcoming.
• Dysphagia: Chewing problems, gagging, refusal to eat certain textures, refusal to brush teeth.
• Expressive Language: The ability to connect words into a grammtically correct sentences that are valid to the situation. Reading, writing,speaking and some gesture systems are all forms of language.(1)
• Hearing Impaired: Definition forthcoming.
• Phonemic Awareness: Definition forthcoming.
• Pragmatics: Pragmatics relates to social languge; the ability to initiate and maintaine conversations as well as turn-taking, eye contact and the appropriatness of a comments andr expression of feelings.
• Reading skills: Definition forthcoming.
• Reading challenges: insert
• Reading comprehension: Definition forthcoming.
• Receptive Language: Receptive language has to do with the ability to gain meaning from what is being said or read.
• Study Skills: Definition forthcoming.
• Stuttering: Stuttering is a disorder of speech fluency that interrupts the forward flow of speech. All individuals are disfluent at times, but what differentiates the person who stutters from someone with normal speech disfluencies is the kind and amount of the disfluencies.(1) Detailed discussion on childhood stuttering
• Tongue Thrust: With an orofacial myofunctional disorder Tongue Thrust/ Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders(OMD): the tongue moves forward in an exaggerated way during speech and/or swallowing. The tongue may also lie too far forward during rest, or may protrude inappropriately between the upper and lower teeth during speech, swallowing, and at rest. May cause child to look or speak differently.
• Voice: Voice is a problem when the pitch, loudness, or quality calls attention to itself rather than to what the speaker is saying. It is also a problem if the speaker experiences pain or discomfort when speaking or singing.(1)

Sources:
1. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association