Six-year-old Antoni, born in the UK to Polish parents, speaks only a few English words in class and often looks confused when ...

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 ...

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 ...

Language development in children is a complex interplay of genetic, neurological and environmental factors. In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the spectrum of language abilities, ...

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 ...

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 and language ...

“Dr. Holt, I need you to come listen to one of my second graders. This is one of my best students, but I’m worried I might be overlooking a speech or language disorder—I’m just not sure,” the teacher ...

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 rigorous analysis of numerous studies concludes that a part of the brain traditionally associated with movement is abnormal in children with developmental language impairments. The discovery has the ...

Judge rules against ICE: No detentions or tear gas at peaceful protests in Twin Cities Federal agents in Minneapolis and the surrounding area can't detain or use tear gas when dealing with peaceful ...

A new study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders suggests that the ability to comprehend complex ...