Tongue twisters are not just fun, they are speech improvement tools. They help improve clarity and cognitive processing. Classic examples like 'She sells seashells' and 'Peter Piper' target specific ...

It’s a question that has plagued English speakers for many decades: “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” To help with this, Greenwell, a College of Health and Human ...

Speech language pathologist and trial principal investigator Brittany Krekeler, PhD, said swallowing issues can sometimes be a “hidden” disorder, because it is usually secondary to other diseases. ‘In ...

Swallowing difficulty — dysphagia — in the elderly is a growing healthcare concern. It can be a result of many different diseases, including acute neurological events and progressive neurological ...

Good news, snorers — or rather, bedtime partners of snorers. A small new study published in the journal CHEST shows that certain mouth and tongue exercises are effective at reducing those notorious ...

Researchers have developed a system that can display the movements of our own tongues in real time. These movements are processed by a machine learning algorithm that controls an 'articulatory talking ...

Up to three-quarters of all stroke survivors experience some form of difficulty swallowing (dysphagia). This condition often results in food or liquid entering the lungs, significantly affecting ...

Up to three-quarters of all stroke survivors have some form of difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) after a stroke. Dysphagia frequently leads to entry of food or liquid into the lungs and has ...