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Aphasia is a language impairment in adults which can be caused by various kinds of brain damage such as stroke, head injury, tumour or other aetiologies.
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Cleft lip and palate are birth defects in which the tissues of the mouth or lip don't form properly during fetal development. Treatment includes plastic surgery, orthodontics, prosthodontics, speech therapy, psychology, ENT, genetics and oral surgery.
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Dyslexia is a type of reading and writing disorder which is not primarily caused by insufficient education, lack of practise or social, emotional or cognitive disorders.
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Fluency disorders is used as a collective term for stuttering and cluttering.
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Laryngectomy is the surgical removal of the larynx and the source of voice (i.e. the vocal cords). Bredtvet Resource Centre offers courses in speech training for laryngectomees.
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Some children do not develop language as expected, even though they have normal intelligence, normal hearing and no other disorders, which can explain the language difficulties. The etiology of this kind of disorder is not found.
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Bredtvet Resource Centre holds a responsibility for teaching and remedial aids (printed and digital) for persons with language-, speech-, reading- and writing impairment.
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A voice is termed "disordered" when the vocal quality of an individual is altered/changed in such a way that it is thought to be abnormal to the individual.