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Speech Development in a Boy with Klinefelter’s Syndrome: a Case Study

Summary/Abstract: Klinefelter’s syndrome, which is a rare disease, is the most common genetic cause of infertility and hypergonadotropic hypogonadism in men. It belongs to numerical chromosomal aberrations (deviations in the number of chromosomes) with at least one additional X chromosome (47XXY). One of the symptoms involves delayed speech development and numerous speech disorders in boys. The aim of the article is to describe the speech therapy diagnosis of a four-year-old boy diagnosed with Klinefelter’s syndrome. During the communication skills test, the author analysed the boy’s understanding and production of speech, his auditory reactions and physiological functions within the articulatory apparatus, the efficiency of the speech organs, articulation, prosody and narrative skills.

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