Speech Impediment Statistics Around the U.S.

SPEECH IMPEDIMENT STATISTICS IN THE U.S. SPEECH DISORDERS ARE A COMMON TYPE OF COMMUNICATION IMPAIRMENT THAT PLAGUES MANY AMERICANS: IN FACT, ONLY 5% TO 10% OF THE POPULATION HAS A COMPLETELY NORMAL, UNDISRUPTED MANNER OF SPEAKING (WITH RESPECT TO ALL PARAMETERS) AND A HEALTHY SPEAKING VOICE: ALL OTHERS SUFFER FROM ONE DISORDER OR ANOTHER. BUT THANKS TO ADVANCES IN SPEECH PATHOLOGY, MANY SPEECH IMPEDIMENTS ARE TREATABLE. HERE WE'VE OUTLINED SOME OF THE TOP SPEECH IMPEDIMENT STATISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES. THE BREAKDOWN DYSPHONIA • UP TO 1 oUT OF EVERY 20 CHILDREN HAS SYMPTOMS OF A LANGUAGE DISORDER. (NIH: HTTP://www.MLM.NIH.GOV/MEDLINEPLUS/ENCY/ARTICLE/D01545.HTM) IT IS ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 6 AND B NILLION INOIVIDUALS IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE SOME FORM OF LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT. (HTTP://Www.PSYCHOLOGYTOOAY.COM/CONDITIONS/CONMUNICATION-DISORDERS) MUTE CLUTTERING SPEECH EACH YEAR, APPROXIMATELY T95.000 PEOPLE SUFFER A STROKE. ABOUT G00,000 OF THESE ARE FIRST ATTACKS. AND 185.000 ARERECURRENT ATTACKS. (HTTP://WWw.STROKECENTER.ORG/PATIENTS/ABOUT-STROKE/STROKE-STATISTICS/) ABDUT 15 NILLION AHERICANS HAVE DYSPHAGIA (ASHA 1994) THE MAA(HATIONAL APHASIA ASSOCIATION) ADDED THAT 25% TO 40% OF STROKE SURVIVORS ACOUIRE APRASIA. IT ESTIMATES THAT ABOUT 80.000 STROKE PATIENTS YEARLY DEVELOP THIS PROBLEM AFTER THEIR STROKE INCIDENT. IT ADDED THAT IN THE US ALONE, THE GURRENT MUMBER OF PEOPLE AFFLICTED WITH APHASIA IS AROUND 1 MILLION. ROUGHLY 1 IN EVERY 250 AMERICANS SUFFERS FROM THIS DISABILITY. (HTTP://www.NEUROAID.COM/EN/BLOG/POST-STROKE-DISABILITIES/APHASIA-AFTER-A-STROKE-A-COMMON-DISABILITY/) VOICE DYSARTHRIA APRAXIA ORAL CANCER IS THE SIXTH MOST COMMON CANCER IN THE WORLD. AT LEAST 30.0OD NEW CASES OF ORAL AND OROPHARYHGEAL CANCERS ARE DIAGHOSED EACH YEAR. INCIDENCE RATES ARE GREATER THAN 2-1 HALE-TO-FENALE FOR ORAL GAVITY CANCERS, AND THE RATES ARE GREATEST IN MEN OVER AGE 40. •CLEFT LIP AMO/OR PALATE MAKE UP THE MOST COMMON BIRTH DEFECT IN THE UNITED STATES. DNE OUT OF EVERY 700 MEWBORNS IN THE USA IS AFFECTED BY CLEFT LIP AMD/OR PALATE. (ww.ASHA.ORG) APHASIA STUTTERING 80.000 TYMYN (HTTP://Www.NIDCD.HIH.GOV/HEALTH/STATISTICS/PAGES/VSL.ASPX) IT IS ESTIMATED THAT APPROXINATELY B0.000 INDIVIDUALS ACQUIRE APHASIA EACH YEAR. 68.000,000 68 MILLION PEOPLE SsTUTTER WORLDWIDE -50-TOM OF STUTTERING IS OUE TO DENETICS (HTTP://Www.IHAVEAVOICE.INFO/SURVEYHTHL) FOUR TIHES AS MANY MALES THAN FEMALES ARE STUTTERERS. HOVER 40 MILLION ANERICAN ADULTS ARE DISLEXIC. 53 MILLION ANERICANS LIVE WITH LONG-TERM DISABİLITY AS A RESULT DF TOI BRDUGHT TO YOU BY C.A.S.E - THE ONLY CDMPREHENSIVE SPEECH EVALUATION APP FOR SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS. IN 2005, NEARLY 1.1 MILLION STROKE SURVIVORS REPORTED DIFFICULTY PERFORNING BASIC ACTIVITIES OF DAILY IFE. (BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATIONOF AMERICA) DOWNLOAD C.A.S.E NOW IN THE ITUNES APP STORE FOR FREE!