Parkinson's disease is most well-known and well-studied for its motor impairments—tremors, stiffness and slowness of movement. But less visible symptoms such as trouble with memory, attention and ...

October marked alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) awareness month. AAC includes all means of communication that a person may use besides talking. Low-tech methods include means of ...

Speech and language impairments affect over a million children every year, and identifying and treating these conditions early is key to helping these children overcome them. Clinicians struggling ...

Difficulty distinguishing spoken words from background noise, called speech-in-noise hearing impairment, was associated with increased risk for Parkinson's disease (PD), with a 57% elevation in risk ...

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. This study suggests and integrates new methods of spectral brain mapping and speech ...

Researchers have developed a wearable ‘smart choker’ that uses a combination of flexible electronics and artificial intelligence techniques to allow people with speech impairments to communicate by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The researchers sought to evaluate how speech biomarkers may detect MS. Patients with MS performed poorer in ...

Speech therapy is a treatment for speech, language, and voice disorders. During speech therapy, you or your child works with a speech-language pathologist (SLP), who teaches you how to speak more ...

When someone experiences early-stage memory loss or other cognitive problems, it often leads to a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In mild cognitive impairment, changes in memory or ...

NEW ORLEANS, May 19, 2025 – Speech and language impairments affect over a million children every year, and identifying and treating these conditions early is key to helping these children overcome ...