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speech center

American  
[speech sen-ter] / ˈspitʃ ˌsɛn tər /

noun

  1. a clinic or therapy center where speech-language pathologists diagnose and treat speech and voice disorders.


Etymology

Origin of speech center

First recorded in 1880–85 as a neurological term; current sense dates from 1960–65


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Other forms of therapy include singing, which activates the speech center in the right side of the brain, Ifejika said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

UC President Janet Napolitano has launched a free speech center to study 1st Amendment issues and step up education about them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2018

At least I was able to show her in my anatomy and physiology textbook that her Wernicke’s area was affected, the speech center in her cerebral cortex, and not anything vital.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 26, 2012

Some memory cells may have been destroyed; certainly many were damaged, especially in Carolyn's speech center.

From Time Magazine Archive

This "motor speech center" is the best-known instance of a super-motor center.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth

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