Speech Therapy News

Danielle dons a hat for her reception at the Knoxville Zoo. This is a story about transformation, determination and community.

As Jennifer Engler works with her son, Riley, Lam Mai engages with his son, Bill, at the Pierce County nonprofit A Step Ahead.

Fifty Detroit Public Schools employees are clearing out their desks after being receiving pink-slips this week.

Horses are used as therapeutic partners to help disabled children improve motor, language, social and cognitive skills.

ACT Labor Party members Jon Stanhope and Katy Gallagher deliver an election promise at the Canberra Hospital, 24 September 2008.

Colleen Weitekamp works with 11-week-old Matthew Ackerly on a therapy ball to develop neck strength during a session at Performance Pediatric Therapy in Danbury.

There were lots of babies and small children at clinic day, the first day at the hospital where our medical volunteers meet and evaluate patients.

Catching Dreams, a nonprofit pediatric speech therapy clinic, recently opened at 5408 Morningside Ave.

Michelle Kolenda is the barn manager at Nature's Edge Therapy near Cameron. The center, which is hoping to expand with a retreat facility, uses animals to help patients with speech problems.

It's something so many take for granted, yet the ability to speak clearly is vital to almost everyone's success in life.

The lack of money will not be an acceptable excuse for the government of Guam to deny critical services to students with disabilities -- at least not in a court of law.

Heritage Hospital in Tarboro recently made history when it hired two full-time speech-language pathologists for the first time.

A speech pathologist or a speech therapist treats individuals grappling with communication problems associated with the voice, fluency, language and speech, most often caused by accidents, cleft palate, delayed ...

A persistent shortage of speech therapists has changed the way services are provided to students in Chandler Unified schools.

Hal Hunsaker uses the VitalStim stimulator to deliver a mild electrical pulse to 8-month-old Andrew Poland of East Wenatchee.

In Chandler schools, a change in the way speech services are delivered has cut the reliance on outside speech pathologists and helped students move out of the program sooner.

Wanted: Nurses, physicians assistants, pharmacists and lab technicians. In Maryland , the nursing shortage has reached almost 10 percent, 2,603 full-time nurses.

Maryland hospitals continue to grapple with a shortage of health care professionals to fill jobs, according to a study released Wednesday by the Maryland Hospital Association .

The Tallahassee Memorial Rehabilitation Center is now offering a free Stroke Wellness Program to support and encourage post-rehab stroke survivors to continue their recovery.

The Medford School District will start the year with a shortage of speech-language pathologists, a problem faced by many schools in Oregon and around the country.