This rare speech motor disorder prevents effective speech planning, leaving some children persistently difficult to understand without specialist support.

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is an uncommon motor speech disorder characterised by the emergence of an accent perceived as non-native, often following neurological insults such as stroke. Unlike ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Evan Usler was just 6 years old, he knew his stuttering would persist into adulthood. He was among the one in 10 children who develop a stutter at a young age. Most children who stutter recover ...

A structural equation model identified the postoperative effects that are correlated with quality of life for patients with oral cancer.