Disorders of Speech and Pronunciation and their relationship to Self-confidence among those Disturbed in Communication in the State of Kuwait

Abstract

The research aims to achieve identify the relationship between speech disorders and self-confidence in speech and pronounciation disorders. according to the gender variable and according to the academic grade variable in the State of Kuwait ,  The number of the research sample was (50) children with speech and pronunciation disorders, who were selected by a simple random method, Who were diagnosed according to their performance on the evidence for observing speech and pronunciation disorders, The researcher used the self-confidence scale prepared by Sydney Shrouj (1990) translated and Arabized by Adel Abdullah : 1990, and A guide for noticing speech and pronounciation  disorders (prepared by Ibrahim El Shafei :2008), And the reseach reached out to there is a negative correlation between the sub-dimension, speech and pronounciation  disorder  and voice disorder as a sub-dimension with self-confidence, It is clear from the previous round that there are no differences in the relationship between speech and pronounciation disorders and  self-confidence according to the gender variable, given that gender (male / female),and that there are no differences in the relationship between pronounciaion disorders and confidence according to the grade variable