Background and objective Speech disorders are a common presenting concern to paediatricians. Yet evidence to guide detection and speech sound therapy referral of cases at risk for persistent speech ...

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 ...

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. The good days, she says, are abundant — thanks in great part to her ongoing ...

This rare speech motor disorder prevents effective speech planning, leaving some children persistently difficult to understand without specialist support.

The Reporter spoke with William Boswell, a speech pathologist-voice therapist in the Department of Otolaryngology and the UAB Voice Center. There are roughly a dozen specialists in the Division of ...