In the etiology of articulation disorders, the most frequently mentioned auditory perception disorders include impairments of the receptive (hearing) function and disorders of speech sound discrimination (disorders of phonemic hearing). One should not, however, disregard the disorders of other auditory functions that can affect the process of articulation. It is therefore interesting to examine auditory attention (selection and intensification of sound stimuli processing) in patients with dyslalia and try to determine its impact on the perception of speech sounds: exogenous and one’s own. No less significant is the assessment of the ability to discriminate sound pitches and the evaluation of auditory lateralization in children with articulation disorders. The authors seek to present this problem on the basis of empirical studies covering a group of ninety-four Polish children aged five to fourteen years.
