Lynne Hewitt returned to her undergraduate college town in January 2020 to become professor and chair of the Department of ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterised by persistent challenges in social communication and restricted or repetitive behaviours. Language development interventions seek to address delays in ...

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 acquisition in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is characterised by considerable heterogeneity in onset, rate and modality. While many children on the spectrum follow a broadly similar ...

The American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) states SLPs are experts in the areas of speech production, fluent timing, language form and content, cognitive-communication, voice and ...

Approximately 46 million Americans – roughly 14% of the population – experience some form of communication disorder, according to "School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology." Speech language ...

Recent years have seen an increase in interest in stem cell therapy for autism, particularly among families looking for ...

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. The good days, she says, are abundant — thanks in great part to her ongoing ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A retired speech-language pathologist in Waco is inventing a language development tool that is expected to help infants who are at risk of developmental delays or disabilities.