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 ...

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 and language ...

ROBINS, Iowa - People in Linn County are raising awareness of a rare motor speech disorder. Apraxia is a rare motor speech disorder. The nonprofit Apraxia Kids brings together children in eastern Iowa ...

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 ...

When Evan Usler was just 6 years old, he knew his stuttering would persist into adulthood. He was among the one in 10 children who develop a stutter at a young age. Most children who stutter recover ...

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 ...