WASHINGTON – The increase in the number of children from low-income families who are receiving federal disability benefits for speech and language disorders over the past decade parallels the rise in ...

Testing among young children has expanded significantly in recent years, but there is a lack of studies to assess their ...

A child’s first word can be a meaningful milestone for parents. But sometimes, children don’t have to say anything at all to teach us about how they develop their earliest vocabularies. Arielle ...

New screening tools in child health care are effective in identifying early language and communication difficulties in children. This is shown by two studies based on more than 6,000 children. New ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – 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 ...

Amanda Owen Van Horne, associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Delaware, uses play as a form of intensive language therapy for children with developmental ...

Statistics from 2015, pre-pandemic, approximate that 7.7% of U.S. children ages 13–17—nearly 1 in 12—have had a disorder related to voice, speech, language, or difficulty swallowing. However, a recent ...

A baby's first words are a source of pride for parents, but when they're late in coming, it can be a source of worry. While ...

Specific language impairment (SLI) is a language disorder that affects growing children, who find it inexplicably difficult to pick up the spoken language skills that their peers acquire so ...

Children with speech, language, and social communication disorders may need extra support as they prepare for this big change to their daily routines and environments. To help build children's ...

With this BS degree, you will have the qualified coursework to apply to a speech-language pathology or Audiology graduate program. Each of the disciplines serves populations across the lifespan, ...