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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have created the closest thing yet to stuttering mice – hoping the critters will help lead to new treatments for humans who do the same. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis ...

Parakeet brains and their ability to mimic human talking could help people suffering from speech disorders, according to a ...

The Health Center at Mountain Top, 237 S. Mountain Blvd. (Weis Plaza), now offers adult and pediatric speech therapy services. Speech therapist and longtime Mountain Top resident, Maria Danishefsky, ...