Bogong moths have begun their annual migration to the Australian Alps, showing up in homes and gardens across eastern Australia.

Background In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number and quality of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) treatment research published. Much of this research has focussed on es.....

This scoping review evaluates clinical diagnoses associated with the terms neurodivergence and neurodiversity in the empirical mental health literature.

Purpose: The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) recognizes that all children have a right to the best possible care, CRC ...

Background & Aims The Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework and discourse on “gestalt language processing” (GLP) have gained substantial visibility i...

Reading anxiety involves excessive worries and apprehensions about reading activities.

Phon is a software program for building and analyzing textual and phonological data corpora. Originally created to support the study of child language development, Phon is used across a wide range of ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ recent Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare (CRUSH) initiative aims to strengthen the agency’s ability to detect, prevent, and res...

Editor’s note: In recognition of Skeptoid’s 1,000th episode and twentieth year, we invited the host of the podcast to reflect on these major milestones. Con ...

The autism spectrum includes a range of people—from those with amazing communication abilities to those with very little. For nonspeaking youth, communicati ...

Belief in telepathy in autistic individuals, as promoted in The Telepathy Tapes podcast, stems from forces of modernity so inexorable that, were we to rewin ...

Purpose: Health literacy and health literacy gaps add layers of complexity in health care. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) offer a unique ski...

Objective This study aimed to compare phonological awareness and verbal working memory skills, as measured by a nonword repetition task, in children with speech sound disorders (SSD) and typically d.....

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop and test standardized stimuli for the Pediatric Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice protoco...

Baby-food-lawsuits.com has acquired Vocaldevelopment. com, a platform once dedicated to early childhood speech patterns and language development. This move aligns with our mission: protecting children...

Limited diversity in speech-language pathology is an issue as populations served become increasingly diverse. This study provides the first overview of demographic diversity within the German speec...

Sir Anthony Hopkins opens up about music’s transcendental power, overcoming impostor syndrome, playing Hannibal Lecter and why “life is one long, long goodbye”.

Purpose: This commentary is motivated by Articles 23 (children with disabilities) and 28 (right to education) of the United Nations Convention on...

Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) has been associated with difficulties in several cognitive and emotional domains, including emotio...

Move over waratahs and banksias! These 10 flowers from the unsung understorey are not just pretty faces, they have surprising tricks up their sleeves.

Trump’s latest executive order is set to lead to delayed vaccinations, falling coverage and a resurgence of diseases once brought under control.

Purpose: Spanish is one of the most common languages spoken in the world and a growing language used in the United States; however, many speech-l...

Purpose: Speech and language disorders cannot be diagnosed and treated until children are approximately 2–4 years old. To investigate whether the...

In this prologue, we introduce readers to the Forum: Honoring the Legacy of Michelle Bourgeois Through Person-Centered Dementia Care. Michelle Bou...

Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a hidden disorder in understanding and producing language, which has lifelong impacts. There is...

Neurotypical people have no idea that they can simply not go outside, it has been reported.  Since the start of summer, reports of allistic people leaving their lovely homes with all their things in h...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to characterize sources of variability in spelling performance in adolescents and young adults with a history ...

Continuity of care is critical for children with cleft palates who require coordinated speech-language pathology input across specialist cleft and community services over time. This study explored ...

This practical guide delves into the core principles of evidence-based assessment and intervention for child speech sound disorders. Grounded in established research, it offers a systematic approach t...

Pauline Hanson has pledged to scrap SBS. The government needs to hear from the rest of us now.

Purpose: Canonical babbling is a key stage in speech development, and atypical canonical babbling can be an early sign of speech disability. Spee...

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness (MA), and vocabulary skills of preschool children w...

Objectives: This systematic review synthesized cross-linguistic evidence on speech error patterns in children with speech sound disorders (SSDs),...

An inspiring turnaround at an Aboriginal community school could provide a scalable solution for closing the gap on Indigenous literacy.

An inspirational collection of images and words on creativity and endurance

Background Communicating effectively in everyday life is a key outcome for children with speech, language and communication difficulties. However, we lack a clear way to describe children's everyday...