Speech Therapy Tips - A Guide To Meet Communication Difficulty

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Speech Therapy Tips

• A Guide To Meet Communication Difficulty

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Synopsis

• How A Speech Therapist Can Help
• Proven Speech Therapy Tips for Your Child
• Speech and Language Activities for the Holidays
• Concussion Therapy and Brain Injury
• Why Seeing a Speech Therapist After a Concussion
  May Be Beneficial

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How A Speech Therapist Can Help

• Muscle weakness
• Speech production requires the use of various
  muscles and sometimes the inability to control
  these muscles may cause unclear speech. For
  instance, your child may find it difficult to
  lift the tip of their tongue to produce the L
  sound.
• Difficulties in coordination
• Another cause of unclear speech could be that the
  child has difficulties coordinating the movement
  to produce sounds. The same can be said of those
  who lack basic dancing skills. In this case, your
  child may be able to pronounce L in Leaf' but
  find it difficult to produce L in
  Caterpillar.
• With the help of a speech therapist who is
  specifically trained to evaluate and proffer
  solutions to speech difficulties in both young
  and old, you can experience peace of mind.
  Unclear speech can cause an individual to become
  socially isolated from other children resulting
  in less peer interaction. Speech therapy can
  bring a feeling of ease to your daily life by
  improving speech, communication, language and
  learning skills.

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Proven Speech Therapy Tips for Your Child

• Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
• Research reveals when children have frequent
  one-on one therapy (three to five times weekly),
  the best results are realized. Group therapy may
  be implemented after initial successes.
• Stuttering
• When a child avoids talking, changes words and/or
  uses extra sounds to get started, stutters with
  considerable tension and effort, or stutters on
  more than 10 of their speech, they would benefit
  greatly from having sessions with a speech
  therapist.
• Dysarthria
• The only treatment for dysarthria is
  speech-language therapy. These treatments may
  include exercises to strengthen jaw and mouth
  muscles, learning ways to speak slower, and
  learning to control breath to make the voice
  louder.
• Phonemic Disorder
• Phonemic disorders are frequently treated using
  minimal pairs (two words which differ by one
  sound) to draw the child's attention to the
  difference and its effect on communication.

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Speech and Language Activities for the Holidays

• Speech Activities
• Tongue twisters
• Practice proper speech during mealtimes
• During a walk or drive, look for objects that
  start with the sound your child is targeting.
  Whoever finds the most wins!
• Daily word choose a word for your child to use
  as much as possible for one day, every day
• Make a collage with pictures of things containing
  the sound
• Tape a word on your back and have your child
  guess what it is
• Hide pictures of words containing the sound and
  find them
• Tape pictures of words on bowling pins and say
  them as you knock them down
• Take a pole and a line with a magnet at the end,
  fish for pictures with paper clips on them. When
  they catch the picture, they must say the word

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Speech and Language Activities for the Holidays

• Language Activities
• 20 Questions Attention, listening, making
  associations, word retrieval
• Hangman Word finding, spelling
• Twister Listening
• Telephone game Listening, attention
• Password Vocabulary, metalinguistic skills
• Taboo Vocabulary, expressive language
• Whoonu social language, forming opinions, making
  decisions
• Headbanz Critical thinking, deductive reasoning
• A Bit of Banter Jr. Conversation skills
• Apples to Apples Vocabulary, abstract thinking
• Scattegories Verbal organization, word finding
• Outburst Junior Vocabulary, word finding
• Zing Written organization, syntax, punctuation
• Rorys Story Cubes Actions Vocabulary, word
  finding
• Rorys Story Cubes narrative development, verbal
  organization, and sequencing

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Concussion Therapy and Brain Injury

• Symptoms of a concussion
• Cognitive signs confusion, fogginess, slowed
  thinking, lack of concentration, memory loss
• Physical signs headache, dizziness, difficulty
  with balance, blurred vision, fatigue,
  sensitivity to light and sound, insomnia
  Emotional signs depression, restlessness,
  anxiety, irritability, aggression, mood swings,
  decreased tolerance of stress
• Concussion therapy can help those who suffer from
  brain trauma, but this has to be handled by a
  professional. This team of health care experts
  will assess and treat patients who have sustained
  a brain injury and are experiencing many
  associated symptoms of a concussion. In the event
  that you or your loved one suffers from a
  concussion, the first thing to do is to visit a
  physician to diagnose and evaluate the extent of
  the brain injury.

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Why Seeing a Speech Therapist After a Concussion
May Be Beneficial

• Speech therapists are trained and have experience
  in evaluating and treating cognitive and
  communicative symptoms associated with a
  concussion. First, the speech therapist will
  complete an evaluation of language and speech,
  communication and cognitive skills, and social
  communications skills.
• Next, the speech therapist will design a
  treatment regimen and provide strategies to focus
  on individual deficits. Individualized, one on
  one therapy is the most effective treatment
  approach to attain best results. Treatment plans
  may include
• Metacognitive approaches
• Process-specific training
• Skill training
• Behavioural approaches
• The stage of recovery and the severity of
  symptoms determine which treatment approaches
  will be most appropriate. But the persons
  ability to perform regular life functions
  independently is the primary focus of all
  treatment.

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