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Speech -Language Therapy, Speech Articulation
Dianne Lewis, MA, CCC/SLP, Bethesda, MD
Joubert Syndrome Foundation & Related Cerebellar
Disorders Professional Advisory Committee Member
The atypical sensori-motor skills throughout the face
and mouth areas will result in difficulties acquiring
intelligible speech. The therapist should combine work
on oral-motor feeding and speech since there is overlap
in the use of the muscleature for all these skills. If
there is a gap between what the child comprehends
(cognition) and what he/she is able to communicate
intelligibly, the therapist should provide alternative
expressive communication systems while the child works
on developing more intelligible speech i.e. sign
language, picture boards, computers, voice output
devices etc.
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