Speech and language problems may make it hard for your child to understand and speak with others, or make the sounds of speech. They're common, affecting as many as one in 12 kids and teens in the U.S ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UW Assistant Professor Breanna Krueger works with Rue Steidley, age 7, as a computer software program plays fake words over the speaker. Steidley must select whether the word sounds like a word meant ...

Many people consider stuttering just a simple speech disorder. But University of Mississippi professor Gregory Snyder and a team of student researchers are working to upend that thinking and develop ...

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 ...

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 ...