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 ...

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 ...

Neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and poststroke syndromes frequently manifest as speech disorders, with dysarthria being among the most prominent. These disorders, which affect ...

Dysarthria and anarthria are diagnoses of speech disorders with anarthria being a severe form of dysarthria. While dysarthria causes impaired speech, anarthria results in a complete loss of the ...

Melbourne researchers have developed a new tool to help identify children at risk of serious speech disorders, aiming to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kirrie J Ballard receives funding from The Australian Research Council, National Institutes of Health (USA), Qatar National Research Fund, and Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia. She is affiliated ...

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 ...