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Why is Speech Therapy Important?

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Speech and/or language impairments increase children’s risk of being diagnosed with reading and behavioral disabilities.

Catts, Fey, Tomlin, & Zhang (2002); Yew & O’Kearney (2013).

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Speech disorder diagnoses in children ages 0 to 12 more than doubled throughout the pandemic. 

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Khan, T. (2023, March).

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Untreated speech and language delays can persist in 40%–60% of children, making these children at a higher risk of social, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive problems in adulthood.

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Sunderajan, T., & Kanhere, S. V. (2019, May).

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​There are at least 2,000,000 people with aphasia in the United States.

National Aphasia Association. (2022, March).

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Prevalence of speech, language, voice, or swallowing disorders by age:

  • 3-6 yrs old: 11%

  • 7-10 yrs old: 9.3%

  • 11-17 yrs old: 4.9%

Black LI, Vahratian A, Hoffman HJ. (2012); Hyattsville, MD (2015).

Nearly half of U.S. children ages 3-17 with a voice, speech, language, or swallowing disorder have not received intervention in the past year.

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Black LI, Vahratian A, Hoffman HJ. (2012); Hyattsville, MD (2015).

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