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 ...

Approximately 46 million Americans – roughly 14% of the population – experience some form of communication disorder, according to "School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology." Speech language ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) can weaken the muscles used for speech, causing slurred speech, nasal tone, poor breath support, vocal fatigue, and pitch control problems. A speech-language pathologist (SLP) ...

In this Healthwatch 16, Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with a speech-language pathologist about available speech therapies.

Rena Goldman has over a decade of writing and editing experience. She covers health, wellness, mental health, small business, and how politics and policies impact our daily lives. Rena has worked as a ...

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 ...

Aphasia is a language disorder that affects communication. It results from brain damage, often after a stroke. Treatment aims to restore a person’s language and communication abilities as much as ...

One typically associates speech-language therapists with the quest to restore or improve the ability to talk. My favorite story about them now, however, is one that took away my ability to talk. Oh, ...

In a worldwide first, a one-and-done gene therapy has been approved to treat a form of hereditary deafness. Many of the children treated can hear normally and speak.