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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Celebrity came late in life to 80-year-old Byron Peterson, a Las Vegas man left with a rare speech disorder after suffering a stroke 11 years ago. The Sun City Summerlin resident has a condition ...

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 ...

UNION COUNTY (WSIL) -- May 14th is Apraxia Awareness Day, still more than a month away, the rare speech disorder is about to get some attention in Union County. A Wolf Lake mom is campaigning to raise ...

This new year brought a new tool in Tennessee that Kristen Hall with Branch House Family Justice Center says could save lives. ACTION Coalition of Johnson County celebrating 20 years of service The ...

A novel PET imaging approach has revealed distinct patterns of brain inflammation in patients with progressive apraxia of speech (PAOS), a rare neurodegenerative disorder that affects speech planning.