Alondra Villegas 

Ms. O’Keefe 

English IV 

3/09/2019 

Research Paper 

Many people may ask why is speech therapy? Or what is speech therapy? Speech 

Therapy helps kids on pronouncing words or having a hard time speaking. Some kids may need 

speech therapy, but not all kids need it. Speech Therapy is important because kids who start 

going to speech therapy helps them to improve their pronunciation when they get older. Some of 

the articles I have researched say that kids start making certain noises in a certain age or start 

making different words, but some kids do not really start doing these kind of stuff in which they 

are a bit delayed on speaking, so they have to take speech therapy. Therapy would help them 

pronounce words and able to make sentences.  

Many kids take speech therapy for different reasons. One of the reasons why kids need to 

take speech therapy is that there are different kind of disorders that prevent them from speaking 

or making sentences. In the article of “Kids Health” it states, “A speech disorder refers to a 

problem ​with the actual production of sounds. A language disorder refers to a problem 

understanding or putting words together to communicate ideas.​” Speech disorder is the problem 

of kids is that they cannot pronounce words properly. Language disorder is the problems of 

putting words together or ideas in order to communicate with other people. This shows how there 

are a few disorders that may lead a kid to take speech therapy. In a similar article call “Going to 
Speech Therapy” have similar reasons why kids go to speech therapy. In the article it states, 

“Speech therapist help people of all ages with different speech and language disorders. Here are 

some of them: articulation disorders, fluency disorders, voice disorders, and language disorders.” 

This article explains why kids go to speech therapy. Also, in another article it explains why kids 

and even adults need to go to speech therapy. In the article it states, “There are three parts to the 

voice — phonation, loudness and pitch, and resonance. Disorders in this category are covered, as 

well as speech and language disorders.” 

Unlike in the first paragraph kids who are delayed on speaking or making certain amount 

of sentences in certain age need to take speech therapy. There are a few articles that describe or 

tell people why some kids are delayed on speaking and how speech therapy would help kids to 

speak. In the article called “Delayed Speech Therapy” states, “A child with a language delay 

may pronounce words well but only be able to put two words together. A child with a speech 

delay might use words and phrases to express ideas but be difficult to understand.” This article is 

explaining that it’s important for kids to start speech therapy early because kids would have a 

difficult time putting more words together or able to express their ideas but not able to be 

understood by other people. A article from Michigan Medicine explains the same reasons why 

speech delay or language delay could affect kids. It states, “Early on, babies like to make sounds 

of their own. As they get older, they learn to mimic sounds that they hear. If you are concerned 

about your child’s language development, you should talk to your pediatrician.” This explains 

that if parents are concern about if their child’s speech delay that they should take their child to 
the pediatrician. It’s important to know if the kid needs to take speech therapy.  

There are many websites that explain why kids and adults need speech therapy. On a 

article called, “5 Reasons Why Speech Therapy is Crucial for a Non-Verbal Child” it states, 

“Speech and Language Therapy can give a child a way to communicate.” On the article it also 

shows five reasons why kids and adults need speech therapy. Taking kids to therapy help them to 

communicate. It’s important that kids and adults know to how to communicate and pronounce 

words that they may have trouble pronouncing.  

In conclusion, Why is speech therapy important for all ages? Doing research and finding 

articles that explain why kids and even adults need to take speech therapy and it gave the reason 

why some kids and adults need to take therapy. Doing research learning more about speech 

therapy and why it’s important for some people. I see that this issue resolve itself by informing 

people why speech therapy for some people is important. Also, learning how people who are 

taking it or who took it helped them improve their communication and pronouncing words.