Medically reviewed by Nicholas R. Metrus, MD Key Takeaways Dysarthria and anarthria are speech disorders caused by brain damage affecting the muscles that control speech.Conditions such as stroke, ...

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 ...

A 5-year-old wearing headphones is instructed by a prerecorded voice to repeat what they hear word for word. Such a test, called sentence recall, measures auditory processing, memory and language ...

Evaluation and treatment of speech, language, and cognitive disorders in clients with varying neurologic diagnoses including but not limited to post-stroke aphasia, traumatic brain injury, dementia, ...

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 ...

One out of every four kindergartners in the United States is Latino, making bilingual communities like we have in Southern Arizona the norm, rather than the exception. Tucson is also a refugee ...

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 ...

The National Science Foundation is funding the University of Buffalo to develop a new artificial intelligence research center focused on speech-language disorders. The National Science Foundation (NSF ...

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 ...