Children who face challenges with speech or language often struggle not just in school, but also in everyday situations. Speech therapy provides targeted support that helps kids improve their ...

Roughly 8-9% of young children have a speech sound disorder, which results in difficulties producing speech sounds correctly and often has no known cause, according to the National Institute on ...

Kathy Neumann was amazed the first time her son Ryan said the word, “mom.” He was five years old. “Before that, the only word he could say was, ‘dirt,’” Kathy, a Lacey resident, said. “It was one of ...

Children’s Day is celebrated across India every year on November 14, to mark the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. Known fondly as Chacha ...

Irish startup SoapBox Labs is on a mission to create what it calls “the world’s most accurate and accessible speech technology for children”, tech it plans to offer to third-party hardware and app ...

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 ...

Speech difficulties in children are common. In fact, 1.9 million children in the UK are currently struggling with their speech. There are lots of different reasons for this, from the physical to the ...