speech therapy

[ speech-ther-uh-pee ]

/ ˈspitʃ ˈθɛr ə pi /

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noun

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.

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Also called speech-lan·guage ther·a·py

[speech-lang-gwij ther-uh-pee] /ˈspitʃˈlæŋ gwɪdʒ ˈθɛr ə pi/ .

Origin of speech therapy

First recorded in 1930–35

OTHER WORDS FROM speech therapy

speech ther·a·pist, noun

Words nearby speech therapy

speechread, speechreading, speech recognition, speech sound, speech synthesis, speech therapy, speech-to-text, speechway, speechwriter, speed, speedball

How to use speech therapy in a sentence

They didn't mind it, except for the fact that my speech therapy cut into play time.
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Other than speech therapy, my life post-CI didn't change much.
This Is What It Is Like To Be Deaf From Birth|Quora Contributor|December 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She studied speech therapy at Institut Libre Marie Haps and then held her own practice from 1995 until her marriage in 1999.
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“I had been doing speech therapy, and it had been making me more aware of the stutter, which actually made it worse,” he says.
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British Dictionary definitions for speech therapy

speech therapy

noun

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 of speech therapy

speech therapist, noun

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