Health and Medical Guide to Mouth and Teeth Speech and Communication Disorders Health information topics about Speech and Communication Disorders: Children 1. Speech-Language Therapy Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/ill/speech_therapy.html 2. Auditory Processing Disorder in Children National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/auditory.asp 3. Childhood Apraxia of Speech American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/Developmental-Apraxia-of-Speech... 4. Delayed Speech or Language Development Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/behavior/not_talk.html 5. Going to a Speech Therapist Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/kid/feel_better/people/speech_therapist.html 6. How Does Your Child Hear and Talk? American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/child_hear_talk.htm 7. Late Blooming or Language Problem? American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/Late-Blooming-or-Language-Probl... 8. Late-Talking Children Often Poorer Readers American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/about/news/releases/2002/late_talkers.htm 9. Pragmatics, Socially Speaking American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/pragmatics.htm 10. Speech and Language Delay: What Does This Mean for American Academy of Family Physicians http://familydoctor.org/442.xml 11. Speech and Language: Developmental Milestones National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/speechandlanguage.asp Clinical Trials 1. ClinicalTrials.gov: Speech Disorders National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D013064&recruiting... 2. ClinicalTrials.gov: Communication Disorders National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D003147&recruiting... Diagnosis/Symptoms 1. Functional MR Imaging (fMRI): Brain American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America http://www.radiologyinfo.org/content/functional_mr.htm Dictionaries/Glossaries 1. NIDCD Glossary National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/glossary/glossary.asp Directories 1. Speech to Speech Services: Access Numbers in the U Federal Communications Commission http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/sts.html 2. Find a Professional: Online Directory of Audiology American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/proserv/ 3. Directory of Organizations National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/directory/index.asp Genetics 1. Genetics Home Reference: 47,XYY syndrome National Library of Medicine http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=47xyysyndrome 2. Genetics Home Reference: Triple X syndrome National Library of Medicine http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=triplexsyndrome Law and Policy 1. Telecommunications Relay Services and National 711 National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/telecomm.asp 2. Employment Rights of People with Communication Dis American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/outreach/take-action/Employment+Rights.htm Organizations 1. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/ 2. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communica http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/ Overviews 1. Speech-Language Disorders and the Speech-Language American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/students/professions/overview/sld.htm 2. Speech and Language Impairments National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities http://www.nichcy.org/pubs/factshe/fs11txt.htm Rehabilitation/Recovery 1. Speech for Patients with Tracheostomies or Ventila American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/Tracheostomies+or+Ventilators.h... Related Issues 1. What Is Language? What Is Speech? American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm 2. Augmentative Communication American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/acc_primer.htm Research 1. Monkey Talk, Human Speech Share Left-Brain Process National Institute of Mental Health http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2004/nimh-29.htm Specific Conditions 1. Spasmodic Dysphonia National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/spasdysp.asp 2. Traumatic Brain Injury: Cognitive and Communicatio National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/tbrain.asp 3. Apraxia of Speech National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/apraxia.asp 4. Central Auditory Processing Disorder Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/ears/central_auditory.html 5. Developmental Dyspraxia National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/dyspraxia/dyspraxia.htm 6. Dysarthria American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/dysarthria.htm 7. Hypernasality: A Treatable Speech Disorder American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/throat/hypernasality.cfm 8. Language-Based Learning Disabilities American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/Language-Based-Learning-Disabil... 9. Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/Orofacial-Myofunctional-Disorde... 10. Selective Mutism American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/Selective-Mutism.htm Statistics 1. Statistics on Voice, Speech, and Language National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/vsl.asp Teenagers 1. Speech Problems Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/sight/speech_disorders.html   Dentistry News From Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. 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