Smart speakers may help children with speech difficulties
Smart speakers might help children with speech difficulties practice speaking slowly and clearly, new research by Cardiff University suggests.
Jun 24, 2025
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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms: News and Research on Speech Disorders
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Stuttering may be more than a speech disorder
Many people consider stuttering just a simple speech disorder. But University of Mississippi professor Gregory Snyder and a team of student researchers are working to upend that thinking and develop new ways of treating it ...
Jun 4, 2025
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Aphasia can be the first sign of stroke
Aphasia is a disorder that affects a person's ability to retrieve language. It's as if their brain's word cabinet has fallen over and mixed their words around, resulting in varying levels and forms of impairment, including ...
May 27, 2025
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Speaking more than one language can add layers to stroke recovery
You might not put a lot of thought into what it takes to speak, but speaking keeps your brain busy. In every conversation, multiple regions activate to process sounds, give words meaning and control the muscles that move ...
May 14, 2025
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Speech and hearing tests allow early detection of rare type of dementia that affects language
Difficulty finding words or the habit of substituting them with others that are similar semantically—such as knife and cutter—or phonologically—such as knife and wife—are usually the first symptoms of a type of dementia known ...
May 1, 2025
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Combining brain stimulation with speech therapy shows promise for restoring language in primary progressive aphasia
Primary progressive aphasia is a neurological condition that causes a gradual decline in language abilities. There is no cure or medication that can reverse or stop the progression of PPA. The standard practice in the clinical ...
Apr 21, 2025
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Global telemedicine therapy for dementia shows benefit in clinical trial
For people living with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare, early-onset neurodegenerative dementia that predominantly affects language abilities, something as simple as ordering their favorite meal at a drive-thru can ...
Apr 18, 2025
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Five reasons why young-onset dementia is often missed
Around 57 million people worldwide have dementia. While most cases of dementia are diagnosed in older adults, about 7% of cases occur in people under 65. This number may be even higher as young-onset dementia continues to ...
Apr 17, 2025
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Study reveals promising insights on treatment to improve speech after a stroke
Lucy Mulloor woke up one morning and realized something was terribly wrong. The 45-year-old single-mom could hear her two daughters in the kitchen but couldn't call out to them. She'd lost the ability to talk and to move ...
Apr 16, 2025
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Brain stimulation shows promise in reducing fatigue for post-stroke patients
A painless and non-invasive pulse of electrical stimulation to specific brain areas can ease some symptoms of post-stroke patients, though how it works remains a physiological mystery.
Mar 24, 2025
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