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 ...

Approximately 46 million Americans – roughly 14% of the population – experience some form of communication disorder, according to "School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology." Speech language ...

Communication disorders are a group of neurodevelopmental conditions that involve persistent problems related to language and speech. They most commonly occur in children but can persist into ...

Speech therapy is the assessment and treatment of communication problems and speech disorders. It is performed by speech-language pathologists (SLPs), which are often referred to as speech therapists.

The study of second language speech fluency has advanced significantly in recent years, drawing attention to both the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms underlying fluent speech production. This area ...

Speech-language pathologists or speech therapists can help when you are having problems speaking, communicating, or swallowing due to a wide range of conditions, including speech delays or strokes.

We all have disfluent moments where we use fillers such as “like, um, well, uh,” revise what we’re saying and start over, or repeat a word every now and then. However, when a person has difficulty ...

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. The good days, she says, are abundant — thanks in great part to her ongoing ...

This week in Hallway Voices, we learned about how a speech-language pathologist decided she wanted to help children find their voices. We talked to Harmony Ebbesen, who works as a speech-language ...

Speech therapy provides treatment and support for people experiencing speech disorders and communication problems. The approach is useful for treating several issues in both children and adults.