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Speech and language services are provided in CCSD 15 to children in early childhood through junior high. Services are provided in the following areas:
*Articulation/Phonology - Difficulty producing sounds correctly. These sounds may be distorted, omitted, or substituted. Difficulties could be due to oral-motor dysfunction, difficulty putting sounds together, or a developmental lag in acquiring sound productions.
*Language - Difficulty understanding and/or producing language effectively. Areas of difficulty include vocabulary acquisition, forming meaningful and/or correct sentences, thought organizations, and expression.
*Fluency - Hesitation, prolongations, repetition of sounds or phrases, and/or complete block of speech utterances.
*Voice - Vocal quality may be hoarse, harsh, or weak due to habitual vocal abuse such as yelling.
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