A More About Speech Therapy

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A More About Speech Therapy
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Synopsis

1. Language Disorders Why do You Need Speech
   Therapist
2. Does Your Child have a Language and Speech Delay
   Speech Therapy Can Help You?
3. Importance of speech therapy for children
4. How To Identify If A Child Needs Speech Therapy
5. Effectiveness Of Speech Therapy
6. Speech Therapist and Speech Disorders

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Language Disorders Why do You Need Speech
Therapist

• What Is Speech Therapy?
• Speech therapy is something when a certified
  speech-language practitioner known as a
  speech-language pathologist works with a child or
  adult who is having difficulty in communication
  such as speech difficulties, written language
  problem, voice disorders, language issues,
  swallowing, spoken and shuttering. The
  speech-language pathologist help to identify the
  problem of the patient, evaluate it, and provide
  immediate treatment for it. Specifically, in
  education communication disorders, there are two
  most important things in which are needed to be
  focus, what you as a caregiver or parent can do
  and how the therapist can help, this is what we
  do first in our assessment and treatment.
• Importance of Speech Therapy
• Speech therapy is a kind of issue that if not
  addressed in a timely manner, the problems with
  communication can have a lifelong effect. If your
  child is getting older with communication
  difficulties, it will be more difficult for him
  to be successful in school and make friends. If
  the problem left untreated, in adulthood there
  can be many after effects which can be both
  professional and social. The Adults with
  communication disorder always find themselves
  struggling in their personal life and work life.
  This is why early intervention is key to get
  cured at any age.

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Does Your Child have a Language and Speech Delay
Speech Therapy Can Help You?

• The speech-language pathologists can help treat
• Expressive language problems Issues with
  speaking such as (expressing) language.
• Receptive language problems Issues understanding
  such as (receiving) language.
• Pragmatic language problems issues using the
  language in socially suitable ways. The
  speech-language pathologists use tailored
  strategies for every child to accomplish specific
  challenge, these strategies might include
• Linguistic intervention activities These
  activities have the ability to build skills in
  many ways, which includes providing kids
  feedback and modeling. The speech therapist may
  use books and pictures or play-based therapy. The
  therapist may introduce language drills in order
  to practice skills.
• Articulation therapy In this therapy, the
  speech-language pathologist models the sounds the
  kid is facing difficulty with. This may involve
  the demonstration of how to move the tongue in a
  way that it creates specific sounds.
• Feeding and swallowing therapy In this therapy,
  the speech-language pathologist explains the
  child those exercises which help in strengthening
  the muscles of the mouth. This includes various
  lip, tongue, facial massage, and jaw-related
  exercises. The therapist may also use some food
  textures to boost awareness in the child while,
  eating and swallowing.

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Importance of speech therapy for children

• Helps the Child to Enunciate
• Problems with enunciation occur due to muscle in
  coordination or due to cleft palate problems.
  Speech therapy is an impactful way to help the
  child acquire the skills needed to produce the
  words clearly and correctly. With some sessions
  of speech therapy, the child will have no trouble
  producing words and sounds. They will easily be
  understood by others.
• Gives the Child A Way to Communicate
• Children who reach the age of three, and have not
  yet developed their communication skills might
  require some external help. Speech therapy is the
  way to go about and help these kids find their
  voice.
• Helps the Child with Language
• Speech therapy is not just limited to helping the
  child correct their speech it also helps with
  their language. Most people have this
  misconception that all speech therapy focuses on
  is related to speech. When in reality, it centers
  more than that. The childs comprehension,
  grammar, sequencing and many more skills are
  taught and developed.
• Helps the Child with Developing Social Skills
• In our society and community, you cannot go far
  if you lack in social skills. In order to live
  and survive in this world, we need to interact
  with the rest of our kind. These skills are
  essential to be developed from an early age.

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How To Identify If A Child Needs Speech Therapy

• Your Child Is Not Socially Interactive
• When babies are of 3 months or so, they respond
  to you by smiling or by making coo-ing sounds. By
  the time they turn 2, they are able to figure out
  when you ask them more juice or get your
  shoes. At this stage, they have the capability
  to understand you and respond back to you.
  However, if your child shows no such signs of
  receptiveness, you should consider the
  possibilities of speech therapy for your child.
• Sounds Or Words Are Notably Reduced
• Once your baby turns 1, he or she should have the
  ability to make out the words you speak. by the
  time the baby turns two, he or she should have a
  vocabulary of around 50 words. During this time,
  if you sense your child is speaking hardly any
  words or is not at all talking, its time to take
  your child for speech therapy.
• You Are Not Able To Comprehend What Your Child
  Says
• Now that your baby is somewhere between the age
  of 18 to 24 months, you should have no difficulty
  understanding what your child is saying. However,
  if you are not able to make out what your child
  is saying, it may be a sign that your child
  requires speech therapy.

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How To Identify If A Child Needs Speech Therapy

• Your 2 Year Old Is Not Able To Put Together Two
  Words
• There is no hard and fast rule that by the time
  your baby turns 18 months old, he or she should
  have the ability to connect two words together.
  Some babies are not able to develop this ability
  till they turn 2 or two and a half years old.
  However, if your child has turned 3 and is still
  not able to speak words like mama milk or my
  ball daddy play, you might want to consult a
  speech therapist for speech therapy.
• You Sense Your Child Is Having Difficulty Saying
  Words Or Making Sounds
• If you feel that your two-year-old child is
  having difficulty saying words that have easy
  consonants such as ma or pa, or if your child
  has reached the age of three and is unable to
  make harder sounds of the alphabets K or G,
  there is a high possibility you child has speech
  difficulties and may need speech therapy.

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Effectiveness Of Speech Therapy

• Improving speech muscle coordination
• Speech therapy is an excellent way to help
  improve the coordination of your speech muscles.
  Through various coordination and strengthening
  exercises, speech therapy becomes effective for
  the non-verbal.
• Improving Communication between body and brain
• Our body is indeed a remarkable and astounding
  piece of work. The wirings of our brains are what
  gives the message to our body to perform a task.
  For an autistic or non-verbal person, speech
  therapy is effective in improving the
  communication gap between brain and the body.
  With the help of auditory and visual aids used in
  speech therapy, an autistic or non-verbal
  individual will be able to see a marked
  difference in themselves.
• Improving eloquence
• Another effective way speech therapy helps an
  autistic or non-verbal individual is by improving
  their fluency in eloquence. The therapy requires
  you to do some breathing exercises as a way to
  help improve your articulateness.

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Effectiveness Of Speech Therapy

• Enhances language learning
• With the help of positive reinforcements
  integrated into speech therapy, the autistic or
  non-verbal individual gets motivated to improve
  their language skills.
• Improving communication
• An autistic or non-verbal individual will have
  difficulty in verbally communicating with others.
  Speech therapy allows the individual to find
  another way of communication. This can be through
  communication devices, signing or even gestures.
• Improving ability to express oneself
• An autistic or non-verbal person has to face the
  hurdles of communicating their feelings, ideas,
  and thoughts to others. This can be quite a major
  obstacle that is difficult for the person to deal
  all by himself or herself. In such cases, speech
  therapy works wonders for them. They are able to
  find a voice for themselves.
• An Increase In Self-Esteem
• An autistic or non-verbal child is aware of the
  fact that they are different from the rest.
  Knowing this stops them from making any efforts
  to communicate with the public. When an autistic
  child faces a world full of kids similar to his
  age, he naturally pulls himself away and stays
  silent. The cruel world we live in today
  constantly reminds these kids that they are
  different.

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Speech Therapist and Speech Disorders

• LANGUAGE AND SPEECH DISORDER
• Expressive In this problem, it is difficult for
  a person or a kid to put words together, problems
  in using the language in a socially correct way,
  and sometime it includes limited vocabulary.
• Receptive In this disorder the child will face
  processing and understanding of the language.
• Among all, the most common speech disorder is
  stuttering, apraxia, and dysarthria.
• TREATMENT
• The speech disorder with mild intensity may not
  require any treatment. It is also a fact, that
  some speech disorders may simply go away with the
  time and others can be treated with speech
  therapy.
• The treatment of the issue depends and varies on
  the type of disorder. In a treatment through
  speech therapy, a professional speech therapist
  will introduce different exercises that
  specifically work to strengthen the muscles in
  your throat and face. From this treatment the
  person will learn to control speaking and
  breathing because it improves the sound of the
  words.

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