Phonological Disorders

Phonology is the sound system of language. A phonological disorder occurs when a child's speech errors fall into different patterns, or phonological processes. These are generally patterns children use to simplify adult language. For example, a child might delete all final consonants (i.e "ha" for "hat", "da" for "dog", etc) or reduce consonant clusters (i.e. "poon" for "spoon" or "pane" for "plane", etc.)

Therapy targets the phonological processes, not individual speech sounds through a structured approach of auditory training (listening) and speech production.