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Why Do Adults Need a Speech Therapist
Adults may need speech therapy for a variety of reasons. They may have suffered a stroke or another type of brain injury that has affected their speech....


How Do Your Adenoids and Tonsils Affect Your Speech?
The tonsils and adenoids are structures located in your throat that play an important role in supporting your immune system. They work by preventing germs...


Dysarthria vs Aphasia – what is the difference?
Dysarthria and aphasia are two common communication disorders that can affect adults. However, they are two very different conditions with different causes...


Does Apraxia of Speech Affect Adults?
A 57-year-old man experiences a stroke that damages his brainstem. This damage disrupts the neural pathways that control his speech muscles, resulting in...


Vocal Hygiene: Why you need to start caring for your voice now
Your voice is one of your most important tools, both professionally and personally. It is one of the characteristics of speech unique to human beings. Most...


Speech Therapy for Parkinson's Disease
Speech problems from Parkinson's are complex. Parkinson's speech therapy can...


Best Speech Therapy Tip for People with Aphasia
Aphasia is a speech disorder that can happen after an injury or stroke. It's the loss of ability to communicate, due to damage in the parts of the brain...


Understanding Motor Speech Disorders: Dysarthria and Apraxia Explained
Dysarthria is a problem with the muscles used for speech, while apraxia is a problem with the brain's ability to plan and organize movements needed for...


Dysphagia: Speech Therapy Helps with the Most Common Speech & Swallowing Disorder
Dysphagia is a condition that affects how a person swallows. This can make it difficult to eat, drink, and speak. With the help of a speech therapist, you...


How to stop stuttering as an adult?
Many of us occasionally stumble, but stuttering in adults impacts the daily lives of about 3 million Americans. Speech pathology can offer adults speech...


A New Year: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, Activity for Speech Therapy At Home
When you are practicing speech therapy at home for speech, language or memory development, the new year offers some easy activities to work into your...


Why is Reading Important for Speech Therapy?
The starting point for reading is sound, and kids with a speech sound disorder or childhood apraxia of speech may also have trouble reading, and vice-versa....


Improving Your Speaking Skills to Get Ahead in Your Career
Communication is an essential part of life, both in personal endeavors and professional pursuits. It’s what allows people to express ideas that eventually...


What to Do at Home for Speech Therapy After a Stroke?
Recovering from a stroke is a dynamic, and often challenging process. While rehabilitation after a stroke can help people get back some or all of their...


Adult Speech Therapy Tips: How to Organize Your Thoughts
At Better Speech, we provide online speech therapy for adults, and often work with people who have trouble organizing their...


Speech Therapy for People with Alzheimer's or Dementia
If you’re the relative or caregiver of a person dealing with Alzheimer’s or dementia, it can be an extremely difficult and challenging situation. As your...


Accent Reduction: How Speech Therapy Can Help
Do you want to take accent reduction or accent modification classes but are not sure what it's all about? Read...


What is a Cluttering Speech Disorder?
If you've noticed that a loved one's speech is sometimes chaotic and mumbled, or if your own words come out in rapid-fire succession and seem jumbled...


When Speech Therapy Goes Online, Everyone Benefits
Originally Published by Mediaplanet in USA Today March 23,...


Home Health Speech Therapy Helps Seniors Stay Social
Employing a home health speech therapist like our online speech therapist from Better Speech, is a wonderful way to help you participate in speech-language...
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