Children who face challenges with speech or language often struggle not just in school, but also in everyday situations. Speech therapy provides targeted support that helps kids improve their ...

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 ...

Speech therapy for autism helps improve communication skills, social interactions, and understanding of language. This can make daily interactions and learning more manageable for autistic people. In ...

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 ...

Nearly 40 speech pathologists are now able to provide specialized care across SWVA. “You think of a cleft lip and you just sew it closed, and that’s not quite it,” says Christopher Pierce, Chair of ...

Speech pathologists tested the speech of more than 1000 Australian kids to develop the guidelines, identifying patterns and sound mix-ups ‘normal’ for certain ages versus those that raise concerns.

Researchers have developed a tool for identifying children at risk of speech disorders, reducing unnecessary treatment for common speech errors that often resolve on their own. The research, led by ...