Treating Speech Impediments
Many people have speech impediments, and many children have trouble speaking when they are young. In a society that values eloquence, speaking with a noticeable difficulty can be embarrassing and cause serious self-esteem issues. It can also mean difficulty in getting a good job or progressing in life [...]

Treating Lisps With Speech Therapy
If you know someone who has a lisp, or if you have a lisp yourself, you know how frustrating it can be. Not only does this speech impediment make it hard for you to communicate clearly, but it can be embarrassing, and limit your social interaction overall [...]

Stuttering Treatments On The Internet
Not that long ago, if you stuttered and wanted to stop, you could get professional speech therapy, or you could possibly find a book for stutterers. While hypnotherapy and one-on-one speaking courses were available, they were hard to find, and many people didn’t realize they had [...]

Speech Therapy For Stammering
If you have, or know someone who has, a stuttering or stammering condition, you understand how hard it is to live comfortably with a speech impediment. You’re aware that the pressure of “trying” to speak fluently and clearly in front of other people causes great self-consciousness. You [...]

Speech Therapy For Improved Confidence
If you’re often self-conscious and have a low self-image or opinion of yourself, there may be more to it than that. If you also have a speech impediment, even a mild one, you may be suffering unnecessary embarrassment because of your difficulty speaking. Speech therapy can [...]

Speech Therapy And Sign Language
Young children are able to form signs with their hands long before they can form words with their mouths. This makes sign language a good companion to speech therapy in children with communication difficulties. When babies watch adults form signs, and learn the connection between [...]

Is Stuttering A Disability?
The term “disability” is actually a very specific legal term, which means that a condition impedes normal functioning and prevents a person from doing certain things.
Stuttering is, in fact, a developmental disorder. A “physical disorder” would be a disorder that interferes with the functioning of [...]

Stuttering Help With Speech Therapy
If you have a speech problem that has been described as a stutter or stammer, repeating words or parts of words, you are far from alone.  Reaching back into history, Winston Churchill overcame a stutter to become perhaps the best-known orator in the world, and singer Mel [...]

Speech Therapy And Early Childhood Speech Difficulties
Learning to speak is one of the biggest tasks a young child has to face. In fact, as an individual function, learning to talk may be the biggest, right up there with learning to walk. Kids spend a lot of time learning to listen to, [...]

What Is Speech Therapy?
You’ve probably heard of speech therapy, and may have gone to school with kids who “went to speech.” Your own kids may have had speech therapy at school, or you may have had some assistance with your own speech. Still, you may not have a clear picture of [...]