Articulation

Articulation is the use of the articulators (lips, tongue, etc) to produce speech sounds. Accurate articulation also requires exact placement, sequencing, timing, and force of the articulators.

An articulation disorder can be organic (a known physical cause) or functional (no known physical cause). In either case, a client does not produce speech sounds correctly. Articulation errors may occur at the sound, word, phrase, sentence, or conversational speech level.

Therapy targets each individual speech sound in a hierarchical structure. The client is taught how to use his/her articulators to produce the speech sound.