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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A speech impairment affects people who have problems speaking in a regular tone of voice or tempo. Speech impairments make it hard for people to communicate properly, and they can happen in both ...

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 ...

An international study has discovered nine new genes linked to the most severe type of childhood speech disorder, apraxia. An international study led by Melbourne researchers has discovered nine new ...