Types of speech impediments?

Answer

Speech impediments, also referred to as speech disorders occur when normal speech is disrupted. It can be developmental in that most children will generally go through a stage of disfluency i.e stammering, fronting (cat is pronounced as tat) or lisping and gliding r (red pronounced as wed). Certain sounds develop at different stages of childhood and that is why these developmental errors occur. However, if these persist beyond the appropriate age, you should seek a speech and language therapist who will diagnose and treat the speech disorder.