Speech Therapy
Explore speech therapy approaches and techniques that help improve communication skills. Learn what to expect from treatment and how it benefits everyday interactions.
Auditory Verbal Therapy
Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT) is a method of teaching hearing impaired children how to listen and speak. Most hearing impaired people have some degree of hea...
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Individuals with severe speech disorders sometimes cannot communicate verbally and instead rely on another means of communication. These other options are co...
Finding an Appropriate Speech Therapist
Speech therapists assess and treat individuals with speech and language disorders and difficulties. They work in hospitals, schools, primary care locations,...
Getting a Hearing Test
When a child shows signs of a speech disorder or inefficiency one of the first steps towards finding out the cause is to carry out a hearing test. These test...
New Earpiece to Help With Stammering
In 2008 a new earpiece was unveiled that is being hailed as a means for stopping stammering. As of March 2008 the device was still on trial in select areas o...
Phoniatrics
Phoniatrics is a medical term used to describe the area of research into and treatment of the organs involved in speech production, speech habits and the sci...
Speech Therapy and Learning Disabilities
Individuals who suffer from learning disabilities may attend speech therapy as a method of treatment when the learning disabilities involve language. Speakin...
Speech Therapy: Target Sounds
In speech therapy “target sounds” are those which are specifically selected to be practiced by the child, therapist and parents at home. These sounds are...
Speech-Language Pathologists
Speech-language pathologists are individuals trained to prevent diagnose and/or rehabilitate a wide variety of speech, language and swallowing difficulties....
Speech-Language Therapy
Speech-language therapy is a term commonly employed to describe courses of therapy that address both verbal speech concerns as well as difficulties with verb...
Technology to Aid Therapy of Speech Disorders
Speech therapy is the therapeutic treatment of speech difficulties and disorders. Speech and language therapy is a type of therapy that helps to prevent, dia...
The Lidcombe Program
The Lidcombe Program is a behavioural treatment program for children who stutter. It consists of two phases and is conducted by parents. The Lidcombe Program...
Tracheostomy & Ventilator Swallowing and Speaking Valves
The general public is not usually familiar with tracheostomies or ventilators, particularly as they relate to speech and swallowing difficulties. This articl...
Vocology: a Form of Speech Therapy
Vocology, at it's most basic level, is the study of voice and treatments for voice disorders. This means that vocology is made up of a number of different ar...
What Can Parents Do to Help their Children's Speech Therapy?
Speech disorders and difficulties are relatively common in the United Kingdom with some estimates as high as 50% of all children entering school suffering fr...
What Happens During a Therapy Session?
Many individuals who will be attending speech therapy know that the purpose of the therapy will be to help them overcome speech difficulties or disorders but...
What is Speech Therapy?
Speech therapy is a common treatment option for individuals experiencing speech difficulties or disorders. Though many millions of individuals attend speech...
Where Will Speech Therapy Take Place?
Speech therapy, the therapeutic treatment of speech difficulties and disorders, is a common treatment option for individuals experiencing speech difficulties...
Who Will Benefit from Speech Therapy?
Over 2.5 million people across the United Kingdom have speech or language difficulties and almost all of them would likely benefit from attending speech ther...