With an ultrasound probe held beneath his chin, 12-year-old Jack Felker cycled through some of the most common R sounds in American English. He started off by repeating single sounds five times, ...

Using ultrasound technology to visualize the tongue's shape and movement can help children with difficulty pronouncing "r" sounds, according to a small study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, ...

Run. Red. World. Pronouncing the "r" sound in these words requires precise control of the tongue. For most children, this happens naturally, but many children struggle with residual speech sound ...

Two sides of sound: Phonetics studies the physical production and perception of speech sounds, while phonology examines how those sounds function and are patterned in a language. Three phonetics ...

Kay Gow, 9, uses a video game developed at the University of Cincinnati that gives biofeedback for speech learning. While she isn't a patient, Kay helped UC researchers test the game. Pictured behind ...

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 ...

It may sometimes feel like you have little control over what happens inside your body, and how that affects your overall health. But there is a way to harness physiological functions like breathing, ...