Table 4.

Gender distribution of various speech disorders among children in the study sample

Speech disorders	Females n (%)	Males n (%)	Total n (%)	Chi-Square test	P
I. Speech sound disorder (Articulation disorder)				11.68	0.040*
Frontal lisp	40 (9.8)	107 (26.3)	147 (36.1)
Lateral lisp	30 (7.3)	40 (9.8)	70 (17.2)
II. Fluency disorder
Stuttering	15 (7.3)	63 (15.5)	78 (19.2)
Cluttering	10 (2.5)	16 (3.9)	26 (6.4)
III. Voice disorder	15 (3.7)	28 (6.9)	43 (10.6)
More than one disorder	13 (3.2)	30 (7.3)	43 (10.6)
Total	123 (30.2)	284 (69.8)	407 (100)

*significant