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 ...

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 ...

Helping children with speech disorders starts with their tongues. In today's Academic Minute, Syracuse University's Jonathan Preston looks into the mouth to find out how to treat these afflictions.

Speech disorder diagnoses in children more than doubled during the pandemic, a new analysis by Komodo Health shows. The rate of new diagnoses increased progressively as the pandemic continued. About 1 ...

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 ...

Statistics from 2015, pre-pandemic, approximate that 7.7% of U.S. children ages 13–17—nearly 1 in 12—have had a disorder related to voice, speech, language, or difficulty swallowing. However, a recent ...

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 ...

Oommen, E. R.,McCarthy, J. W. The future of natural speech development is uncertain for children with motor speech disorders (MSD). There is a strong desire to put plans in place as early as possible ...

Children born to mothers infected with Covid-19 during pregnancy face a higher risk of developmental disorders, a new US ...

For children with speech or language disorders, being asked to say “trick or treat” this Halloween can be challenging or ...

A US study has found that children born to mothers infected with Covid-19 during pregnancy face a higher risk of developmental disorders, including speech delay and autism, by age three. Risk was ...

Children born to mothers who had COVID-19 while pregnant face an elevated risk of developmental disorders by the time they ...