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

Other Word Forms

• speech therapist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of speech therapy¹

First recorded in 1930–35