
National Healthcare Quality Week Celebrates Outcomes Standards for Patient Care, Including Virtual Speech Therapy
October 16-22 is Healthcare Quality Week, sponsored by the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), to celebrate the profession and...
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Can Essential Tremor Affect Speech?
What is an Essential Tremor? Essential tremor is a neurological condition that results in involuntary movements such as shaking, or...
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How Do I Stop Losing My Accent?
Our accents can play a major role in our personal identity and how others perceive us. Every single person in...
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In-School Speech Therapy vs. Virtual Speech Therapy
In School vs. Virtual Speech Therapy For many years, children of all ages have been participating in traditional “in-person” speech...
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What is a Specific Language Impairment?
Specific Language Impairment (also referred to as SLI) is a term for a developmental language disorder that occurs when language...
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What Are the Symptoms of Spasmodic Dysphonia
What is Spasmodic Dysphonia? Spasmodic dysphonia is a disorder of speech that alters the sound of one’s voice when...
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Why Does my Voice Vibrate when I Talk?
The core of sound and voice production is vibrations, which is one reason why your voice may sound louder to...
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September 21 is World Alzheimer’s Day: Speech Therapists Work to Help Slow Impact of the Disease
September 21 marks World Alzheimer’s Day, an opportunity to educate and learn about the disease – and how providers such...
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What is a Receptive Language Disorder?
A speech disorder refers to the difficulty or inability to properly produce specific speech sounds, and a language disorder refers...
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What Causes Slurred Speech In Parkinsons Disease?
What is Parkinson’s Disease? Parkinson’s disease (also often referred to as PD) arises when the brain cells that...
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What Are The Symptoms Of Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder?
What Are Social Pragmatics? When we communicate with others, we follow a variety of social rules and norms every day....
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Is Cognitive-Communication Deficit an Intellectual Disability?
What is a Cognitive Deficit? The term ‘Cognitive Deficit’ refers to a general impairment of cognition. Cognition is defined as...
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