Speech and Communication Disorders

• Overviews
• Speech and Language Impairments (National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Speech-Language Disorders and the Speech-Language Pathologist (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

• Diagnosis/Symptoms
• Functional MR Imaging (fMRI): Brain (American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America)

• Clinical Trials
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Communication Disorders (National Institutes of Health)
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Speech Disorders (National Institutes of Health)

• Specific Conditions
• Apraxia of Speech (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
• Central Auditory Processing Disorder (Nemours Foundation)
• Developmental Dyspraxia (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
• Dysarthria (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Hypernasality: A Treatable Speech Disorder (American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery)
• Language-Based Learning Disabilities (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Selective Mutism (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Spasmodic Dysphonia (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
• Traumatic Brain Injury: Cognitive and Communication Disorders (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
  Also available in: Spanish

• Rehabilitation
• Speech for Patients with Tracheostomies or Ventilators (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

• Related Issues
• Augmentative Communication (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• What Is Language? What Is Speech? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

• Research
• Monkey Talk, Human Speech Share Left-Brain Processing (National Institute of Mental Health)

• Dictionaries/Glossaries
• NIDCD Glossary (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

• Directories
• Directory of Organizations (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders) - lists organizations that focus on health issues relating to hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language
• Find a Professional: Online Directory of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Programs (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Speech to Speech Services: Access Numbers in the United States (Federal Communications Commission)

• Organizations
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

• Law and Policy
• Employment Rights of People with Communication Disabilities (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Telecommunications Relay Services and National 711 (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

• Statistics
• Statistics on Voice, Speech, and Language (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

• Children
• Auditory Processing Disorder in Children (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
• Childhood Apraxia of Speech (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Delayed Speech or Language Development (Nemours Foundation)
• Going to a Speech Therapist (Nemours Foundation)
• How Does Your Child Hear and Talk? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Late Blooming or Language Problem? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Late-Talking Children Often Poorer Readers (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Pragmatics, Socially Speaking (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
• Speech and Language Delay: What Does This Mean for My Child? (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Speech and Language: Developmental Milestones (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Speech-Language Therapy (Nemours Foundation)

• Teenagers
• Speech Problems (Nemours Foundation)