Hearing Loss Helped Thru Music Therapy

Image courtesy of surasakiStock at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net   I have observed that musicians tend to cope with hearing loss much better than ...

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Hillary Clinton's Constant Throat-Clearing

Image by Gage Skidmore in Wikipedia Many viewers noted that presidential nominee,  Hillary Clinton , constantly cleared her throat during he...

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Toddler language and autism risk

I'm not going to keep you too long today as I introduce the paper by DeWayne Lazenby and colleagues [1] and some rather interesting dat...

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Does eczema increase the risk of childhood speech disorder?

Nativity Kylo? The question posed in the title of this post reflects some interesting data published by Mark Strom & Jonathan Silverberg...

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Speech Impediment to Great Singing on American Idol

During January 2013 auditions of Season 12 of American Idol, there was Lazaro Arbos who has a terrible stutter when he talks, but sings bea...

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Julie Andrews and Her "Botched Throat Surgery"

It has already been well-publicized that the former singing sensation Julie Andrews underwent some type of throat surgery in 1997 after whic...

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New Video on Treatment of Hyper-Nasal Speech by Injection

Our office has created a new video that we have uploaded that shows how hyper-nasal speech can be corrected via injection of filler agents...

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Nasal Sounding Speech

There are actually TWO different flavors of nasal sounding speech . HYPO-nasal speech is due to reduced or no nasal airflow and HYPER-nasal...

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