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How Will Artificial Intelligence Reshape Speech-Language Pathology Services and Practice in the Future?

Following the lead of Joe Duffy (2016), I started asking graduate students in my motor speech disorders classes to imagine (a) what their clinical practice...

Exposure to bilingual or monolingual maternal speech during pregnancy affects the neurophysiological encoding of speech sounds in neonates differently

Introduction: Exposure to maternal speech during the prenatal period shapes speech perception and linguistic preferences, allowing neonates to recognize stories heard...

Screen time linked with developmental delays in toddlerhood, study finds

CNN — Handing your baby a phone or tablet to play with may seem like a harmless solution when you’re busy, but it could quickly affect their development, a new study has found...

Scientists discover how mutations in a language gene produce speech deficits

Mutations of a gene called Foxp2 have been linked to a type of speech disorder called apraxia that makes it difficult to produce sequences of sound. A new study from MIT...

The Decline of Play and Rise in Children’s Mental Disorders

Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past 50 to 70 years. Today, by at least some estimates, five to eight times as...

Asthma, Allergies, Articulation: a Speech Therapy Perspective

While asthma and nasal allergies are medical conditions of the respiratory tract, they may play a role in childhood communication disorders. Up to 50% of children with speech...