Speech-Language Problems and Learning Difficulties in Nepalese Children

Funded Research for Doctoral Study from State Scholarships Foundation (IKY)
This is the first study in Nepal that systematically explored the overall prevalence and its patterns by gender, age and grade level of speech-language impairments in primary school children in a broad frame of its subtypes, namely articulation/phonological problem, stuttering, voice problem, grammatical (syntactic) difficulty, difficulty in expressive ideas, storytelling/narrative difficulty, vocabulary difficulty and understanding/comprehension problem.

Photos from the Washington Speech-Language-Hearing Association (WSLHA) Convention, Seattle, U.S.A.
Thapa, K. B., Okalidou, A., & Anastasiadou, S. (2015, October). Teachers estimate prevalence of speech-language impairments. Poster session presented at Washington Speech-Language-Hearing Association (WSLHA) Convention, Seattle, U.S.A.

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