Speech sound disorder (SSD) encompasses a group of communication disorders in which children have persistent difficulty articulating words or sounds correctly. Speech sound production requires both ...

Advanced brain recording techniques have revealed how neurons in the human brain work together to produce speech. The recordings provide a detailed map of how people think about what words they want ...

Children with autism and other similar conditions often have difficulties in several areas of communication. A new doctoral thesis in linguistics from the University of Gothenburg shows that these ...

Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects produced a ...

Lori Clifton, a speech-pathologist with the Great Falls Clinic, works closely with 3 ½ year-old Maya. Maya is a perfectly healthy little girl, however, she has difficulty articulating certain words ...

Earlier research findings have demonstrated that pronunciation alone may not be key for kinetics, because the jaw has a natural stiffness, causing variability in motion as speech is made. A new ...

Student 1 is an unintelligible female speaker with a very limited phonetic repertoire, severe pitch and loudness problems and little residual hearing. During 12+ years of speech therapy prior to entry ...

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