Speech Therapy
What is Speech Therapy?
Speech therapy (Speech-language Pathology) is a treatment which deals with concerns related to speech-language, communication and feeding. It works to improve functional abilities within the areas from pharynx through mouth via functional activities. It is done by restoring or enhancing the expressive and receptive language skill, articulation skill, speech fluency, social language skill etc.
Speech therapy (Speech-language Pathology) is a treatment which deals with concerns related to speech-language, communication and feeding. It works to improve functional abilities within the areas from pharynx through mouth via functional activities. It is done by restoring or enhancing the expressive and receptive language skill, articulation skill, speech fluency, social language skill etc.
Who needs Pediatric Speech Therapy?
Babies or children with the following conditions usually need speech therapy
Babies or children with the following conditions usually need speech therapy
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What are the common symptoms of speech-language problems?
- Stuttering (Stops in the middle, repeating sounds, holding a sound or syllable for a long time)
- Cluttering
(Speaks in bursts or pause in unexpected place due to disorganisation when
speaking)
- Dysprosody (Monotone)
- Echolalia (Repeat words, short phrases or any context from
the speaker)
- Articulation
disorder (makes sounds, syllables, and words incorrectly)
- Word finding difficulty (Difficult in finding the
right words such as nouns, verbs or
adjectives, results in sentences pausing or substitution using other words)
- Receptive
language disorder (Problems in understanding language, can't follow long or complicated
instructions; or can't get the point of Instructions)
- Expressive
language disorder (Problems in using language, can't form long or complicated
sentences, or talks a lot but can't get to the point)
How can speech therapy help?
- Using specialized therapy tools to strengthen oral musculature, to increase tongue retraction, to control airflow patterns etc.
- Guides children how to produce the specific speech sounds or sound patterns that they are having difficulty with
- Helps children to learn new words and guides them how to put these words together to form phrases and sentences (semantics and syntax)
- Guides children social language skills so that they can more appropriately participate in conversations with others
- Guides children strategies on how to control behaviors such as repetitions, prolongations to increase speech fluency
- Helps in swallowing and feeding issues
