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Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder that affects children and adults.

Articulation, or phonological, disorders result in difficulty producing and/or distinguishing speech sounds.

An auditory processing disorder (APD) is a breakdown in the brain’s ability to use auditory information to hear and understand speech

Cognition is conscious and unconscious, concrete and abstract, intuitive and conceptual.

Dysphagia, or difficulty in swallowing, may include difficulty in chewing, drooling and emptying the mouth.

Language disorders, or language impairments, may involve difficulty with either the ability to understand (receptive language) or to express ideas, thoughts and feelings (expressive language).

A learning disability, or language-based learning disability, is a neurological disorder that affects at least one process involved in using and understanding spoken or written language.

Pragmatic deficits can be defined as an individual’s ability to initiate, interpret and/or respond to verbal and non-verbal communication in real-life situations.

Reading disorders occur when a person has trouble with any part of the reading process.

Stuttering affects the fluency of speech. When there are disruptions in speech, they are termed dysfluencies.

Voice disorders, which may affect as much as 10% of the population, range from mild hoarseness, changes in pitch, low volume and/or breathiness, to aphonia, the complete loss of voice.

Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMT) is a specialized form of therapy that targets the muscles and functions of the face and mouth.

Speech Matters is excited to initiate voice and communication therapy for transgender and non-binary clients.