AMERICANS, ALWAYS AN ARGUMENTATIVE LOT, HAVE of late been exercising their freedom of speech in an unusual variety of debates about the proper meaning and scope of that freedom. Last week the Supreme ...

Students started arriving at Marshall High School early Saturday morning dressed up in suits. As the time for competition got nearer, students from across southwest Minnesota were doing vocal warm-ups ...

Being nervous and anxious are normal reactions when preparing and delivering a speech. There is no real way to completely remove these feelings, but there are some ways to lessen them or to even use ...

As a speaker you are teaching or informing the audience about your topic. Being clear and concise allows the audience to follow along with the information you are presenting. If the topic is difficult ...

When Ulrich Baer contributed an opinion piece to The New York Times in 2017 on speech on campus — the subject of his new book — the response was furious. As he does in What Snowflakes Get Right: Free ...

A new study suggests that when parents baby talk to their infants, they might be helping them learn to produce speech. The way we instinctively speak to babies - higher pitch, slower speed, ...

“Dr. Holt, I need you to come listen to one of my second graders. This is one of my best students, but I’m worried I might be overlooking a speech or language disorder—I’m just not sure,” the teacher ...