The government taskforce responding to the disability royal commission recommendations needs to learn from the stories shared and also how they were communicated.
Around half of toddlers who aren’t chattering by age two will catch up later, but we can’t predict which ones.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.
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Stuttering is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that affects about 1 in 100 people across the world. Yet the precise biological pathways that underlie stuttering are not well understood.
The term ‘intubation’ is used when experts talk about treating patients with severe COVID-19. But this medical term doesn’t explain the traumatic procedure involved.
Developmental language disorder affects more than seven per cent of children, yet is not well known. If your child struggles in school, social interactions or reading, the underlying issue may be DLD.
People who have trouble with their speech, say after a stroke, can find it challenging. But a speech pathologist can help.
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We don’t often give our eating habits much thought but the 8% of the population with swallowing disability need to plan carefully to ensure their food is the right texture and eaten at the right pace.
Your child says “poon” for “spoon” and “fum” for “thumb”. How do you know if this is normal, or if they have a speech or language impairment?
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Babies are born communicating. Their cries and coos speak volumes. However, much-anticipated first words do not appear until 12 months later. By 18 months, the average child says about 50 words. By the…
While stuttering affects one in ten children under the age of four, it doesn’t affect emotional development.
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What did Moses, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Claudius, Lewis Carroll and King George VI have in common? They were all known to stutter. A new study - by me and my collaborators around Australia and…
Universities could be oversupplying graduates in a number of key health fields.
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What if, after several years of studying in an intense degree program, you graduate only to find no jobs within your field? Since 2012, public universities have been allowed to determine the number of…
Allied Health Research Advisor, Monash Health; Adjunct senior lecturer, La Trobe University; Adjunct research fellow, School of Primary & Allied Health Care, Monash University
Professor of Speech Pathology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Associate Director Clinical and Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute