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SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY

Speech and language therapy provides treatment, support and care for children and adults who have difficulties with communication, or with eating, drinking and swallowing.

Speech therapy is an intervention service that focuses on improving a child's speech and abilities to understand and express language, including nonverbal language. 

Speech therapy includes two components:

1.   Coordinating the mouth to produce sounds to form words and sentences (to address articulation, fluency, and voice volume regulation); and

2.   Understanding and expressing language (to address the use of language through written, pictorial, body, and sign forms, and the use of language through alternative communication systems such as social media, computers, and iPads).

 

When do you require Speech and Language / or Speech Therapy:

1.   Articulation Disorders:  When child or adult is unable to articulate or pronounce the speech sound correctly. (Example- If child is speaking ‘boy’ he may say /toy/, /oy/,)

2.   Voice disorders: When child or adult’s voice is inappropriate, such as breathy, harsh, hoarse voice. Some other voice problems are like boy speaking like girl (Puberphonia), girls speaking like boy (Androphonia), some of their voice looks like its comes through the nose (hypernasality) due to cleft palate and lip.

3.   Fluency disorders (Haklana/ Tutlana): is an interruption in the normal speech flow by frequent repetitions or prolongations of speech sounds, syllables, or words or by an individual’s inability to start a word. It may be accompanied by rapid eye blinks, tremors of the lips and/or jaw or other struggle behaviors that a person who stutters may use in an attempt to speak.

4.   Dysphagia/ Eating Difficulties:  is the difficulty in biting, chewing and swallowing. The child or adult may have difficulties in eating and or drinking.

5.   Language Disorders:  Receptive (Understanding)- The child or adult is unable to understand or identify the objects which are available in his or her day to day routine. And also difficulties in understanding people saying to him or following instructions.

Expressive (Speaking)-   The child or adult is unable to speak with others. They are unable to put their words together to make phrases/ simple sentences during conversation.

 

 

If you require more information regarding Speech Therapy or Speech Language Therapy, visit to ------

Listen2Talk, D-1/926, Sector H, LDA Colony, Kanpur Raod, Lucknow 226012, Utter Pradesh.

 

Mobile: 8840533429, 9807557914

 

Email: listen2talk2015@gmail.com

 

 

References:

https://www.parents.com/kids/development/learning-disabilities/what-is-speech-therapy/

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/treatments-approaches/therapies/what-you-need-to-know-about-speech-therapy

https://www.rcslt.org/speech_and_language_therapy/explained