Classification Based on Dysfunction as a Basis for Providing Speech Therapy Services

At present, the legal acts in force in the Republic of Armenia, the approaches enshrined in them, which refer to children with various developmental disabilities, the provision of equal social living conditions for the disabled, are not a necessary basis for effectively and objectively solving the many problems arising from the above reasons. Existing criteria are not decisive in terms of the impact of educational, social, and environmental factors and do not summarize all components of function and disability. Whereas an individual’s participation in public life is conditioned not so much by his or her health condition as by all the surrounding circumstances that positively or negatively affect the person’s activities. Taking into consideration all this the main aim of this paper to describe the existing classification and criteria in regards to its influence on speech therapy service provision.