Maybe you’ve noticed it at a recent playdate: while other little ones are chattering away, your sweet babe is quieter, using fewer words, or communicating differently. Comparison and panic can creep ...

A pretend cash register, a baby doll, and more speech therapy toys for kids. When my son was about 1.5 years old, my husband and I noticed he had trouble communicating, and we struggled to understand ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- On a daily walk with their newborn sons in strollers, Madeline Romano and Mary Vitale, both 35- year-old pediatric speech language pathologists, began to hash out a plan for a ...

When my son was less than 2 years old, he had only five words in his vocabulary. After months in speech therapy, he can use over 100 words and communicate with us. It has helped reduce the number of ...

Children develop at their own rate, but your toddler may have a speech delay if they aren’t hitting certain developmental milestones. Every child develops at their own speed, and some focus on ...

Now that we are into the school year, be it remote or blended, we’re finding that some students who have had the steepest regressions in learning are kids with special needs. We spoke with Lori Caplan ...

Researchers in Melbourne developed a diagnostic tool to identify which children with speech delays are most likely to benefit from intervention, addressing limited therapy resources. Australian study ...

Education continues to look different for most students — and that especially includes those pupils with disabilities who receive support services like speech therapy through their schools. In most ...

Speech therapy is the assessment and treatment of communication problems and speech disorders. It is performed by speech-language pathologists (SLPs), which are often referred to as speech therapists.