speech therapy

[ speech ther-uh-pee ]

noun

1. the diagnosis and treatment of speech and communication problems, as stuttering and other fluency and articulation disorders, or aphasia and other expressive or receptive language disorders.

speech therapy

noun

1. treatment to improve the speech of children who have difficulty in learning to speak, for example because of partial deafness or brain damage, or to help restore the power of speech to adults who have lost it or partly lost it through accident or illness

Derived Forms

• speech therapist, noun

Other Words From

• speech ther·a·pist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of speech therapy¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

In an earlier interview, she said it had taken two years of speech therapy before she was able to say her first words.

From BBC

She said it had taken two years of speech therapy before she was able to say her first words.

From BBC

But after two operations at St George's Hospital, in south-west London, and a course of "amazing" speech therapy, the most recognisable voice in football is back - and on television again.

From BBC

On Thursday, Beshear praised the Kentucky bill — Senate Bill 111 — that will require insurers to cover speech therapy costs to treat stuttering.

From Seattle Times

"This indicates that Språkfyran can identify children in need of speech therapy at an early stage, which is very important in child health care," she says.

From Science Daily