What are phonological process disorders?

Also known as: speech sound disorders, developmental phonological disorder, speech disorder-phonological.

A phonological process disorder is a form of speech disorder in which there is difficulty organizing the patterns of sounds in the brain which results in an inability to correctly form the sounds of words.

For example, this results in a child who may delete one or more sounds at the beginning of words (like “at” instead of “sat”) or only use one consonant in a word with a two-consonant sounds (“peak” instead of “speak”), or they may replace one letter sound with another.

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Reviewed by: Jack Wolfsdorf, MD, FAAP

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