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 ...

Some speech, feeding, and even sleep concerns in children may be more connected than many parents realize.Elyse Scheeler joined Racine & Me to talk about orofacial myofunctional ...

When Marisha Speights first started as a speech language pathologist in preschools serving affluent families in Nashville, Tennessee, she used the typical screening and assessment measures that she ...

The sounds babies make in their first year of life may be less random and more self-driven than previously believed, according to new research. The sounds babies make in their first year of life may ...

Talking is one of the most complex actions the human body performs, yet the process of turning thoughts into speech is coordinated on millisecond timescales. For some children, the brain struggles to ...

The moment your baby utters those first magical words is a milestone every parent eagerly awaits. But what happens when those words don’t come on schedule? Or when your toddler’s vocabulary grows at a ...

Exaggerating phrases and talking in a sing-song way can actually help, not make it harder, for young children to master ...

Contrary to common advice, using parentese, or infant-directed speech, significantly aids babies' language development and ...