“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 ...

Language disorder is a communication disorder in which a person has persistent difficulties in learning and using various forms of language such as spoken, written, or signed. They may struggle to ...

Speech therapy is a treatment for speech, language, and voice disorders. During speech therapy, you or your child works with a speech-language pathologist (SLP), who teaches you how to speak more ...

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, ...

In research published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, investigators have developed a brief, reliable, and valid ...

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 ...

1. What is your scientific training and Background? How did it prepare you to conduct research in ASD? My PhD. is in speech/language pathology. I've been studying the genetics of speech/language ...

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