Abstract: Articulation disorders that inhibit the communicative ability in children can be classified into three types. In the past, we have done much work in dysarthria and organic articulation disorders. Now we begin to explore the treatment of functional articulation disorders. In this paper, we described 10 patients between four to ten years old with functional articulation disorders and approached from different angles. We have positive answers in definition, diagnose standard and treatment procedure. We also find that the cure effect is very good, 9 of 10 patients have regained normal communlcative ability after speech therapy of one to three months.We hope to do much more work in the etiology and incidence of functional articulation disorders of children in China in the future.

Key words: speech therapy, functional articulation disorder, dysarthria