The ability to speak is often taken for granted given that communication is an essential part of human existence. Thus, the impact and prevalence of speech disorders often lack visibility in the ...

Speech therapy is a treatment for speech, language, and voice disorders. During speech therapy, you or your child works with a speech-language pathologist (SLP), who teaches you how to speak more ...

Roughly 8-9% of young children have a speech sound disorder, which results in difficulties producing speech sounds correctly and often has no known cause, according to the National Institute on ...

With fewer than 10 speech pathologists serving adults and children alike in the island, The Mico University College Child Assessment and Research in Education (CARE) Centre is teaming with an American ...

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is an uncommon motor speech disorder characterised by the emergence of an accent perceived as non-native, often following neurological insults such as stroke. Unlike ...

Mikey Akers is fighting for children’s voices to be heard – in the most literal sense. Every year, one in 1,000 children in the UK are diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) – and he was one ...

Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder that can make speaking difficult. It affects the brain pathways involved in speech and can cause problems with coordinating the movements necessary for ...

Johns Hopkins defines stuttering as a voice speech disorder. Stuttering affects more than 80 million people worldwide, and in the United States, more than one million Americans stutter. A voice ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University hope an AI-driven speech reconstruction tool can bridge the gap between a growing ...

A writer with a stutter offers a thought-provoking defence of disfluency and takes a sideswipe at Freud When Jonty Claypole was growing up with a stutter, the role models available were not ...