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What is Dysarthria
Dysarthria is a speech disorder caused by muscular weakness. In order to speak we use many different muscles including but not limited to our lips, tongue and throat. Patients with..
Three Ways to Treat Voice Disorders
What are voice disorders? Voice disorders are changes to either the structure and/or function of the laryngeal mechanism. This causes the larynx to differ in terms of voice quality, pitch,..
Defining Cognitive Development
What is cognitive development? Cognitive development refers to the set of intellectual abilities that help children think, explore, and figure out things. It is the development or mental capacity for..
Understanding Typical Atypical Disfluencies
What is fluency? Fluency refers to the continuity, smoothness, rate, and effort in which sounds, syllables, words, and phrases are joined together during speech production. All speakers are disfluent at..
Understanding Food Aversion
What is food aversion? A food aversion is when a toddler or child refuses foods that are presented to him despite being developmentally appropriate. There are various factors that may..
