Roughly 8-9% of young children have a speech sound disorder, which results in difficulties producing speech sounds correctly and often has no known cause, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have watched this statistic grow, as more families seek support for their children\u2019s difficulties with producing speech sounds accurately. This includes Fran\u00e7oise Brosseau-Lapr\u00e9, certified SLP and associate professor in the Purdue University Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, who is trying to uncover the root causes of speech sound disorder in her Child Phonology Lab within the College of Health and Human Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[1673,263,350,1740,1672,240,176,2083,1743,549],"class_list":["post-44002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-speech-language-and-hearing-sciences","tag-child-phonology-lab","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-speech-language-and-hearing-sciences","tag-dyslexia","tag-francoise-brosseau-lapre","tag-purdue-university","tag-research","tag-speech-sound-disorder","tag-speech-language-pathologist","tag-speech-language-pathology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n