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Medicaid

A joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to millions of low-income Americans, including children, pregnant women, elderly adults, and people with disabilities.

CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program)

A federal and state program that provides low-cost health coverage to children in families who earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford private insurance.

Childhood-onset fluency disorders

A group of speech disorders that begin in childhood and affect the flow, rhythm, and timing of speech, making it difficult for a person to speak smoothly.

Stuttering

A type of childhood-onset fluency disorder characterized by disruptions in the production of speech sounds, such as repetitions of sounds or syllables, prolongations of sounds, or blocks in speech.

Speech therapy services

Professional services provided by a speech-language pathologist to assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, voice, and swallowing disorders.

Telehealth

The use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health education, and public health and health administration. For this bill, it refers to therapy delivered via real-time audio and video.