Many people consider stuttering just a simple speech disorder. But University of Mississippi professor Gregory Snyder and a team of student researchers are working to upend that thinking and develop ...

Speech sound disorder (SSD) encompasses a group of communication disorders in which children have persistent difficulty articulating words or sounds correctly. Speech sound production requires both ...

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 ...

Children with persistent speech disorder have greater difficulty than their peers in making friends and maintaining relationships, according to new research. Published Jan. 17 in the Journal of Child ...

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – I remember when my kids were young, they sounded so cute trying to say new words. When someone would ask my son how old he was, he would respond, “I’m free”. He would use “f ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A 5-year-old wearing headphones is instructed by a prerecorded voice to repeat what they hear word for word. Such a test, called sentence recall, measures auditory processing, memory ...

Imagine you wake up and how you pronounce words suddenly sounds completely different, almost foreign, from the last time you spoke. For example, your American English accent sounds British. This might ...

Explore the challenges of post-stroke aphasia and the importance of ongoing speech recovery beyond initial rehabilitation efforts.

One of the joys of parenthood is watching your child reach milestones as they grow to become their own person: first laugh, first roll over, first steps. But one milestone parents really look forward ...