Music Therapy for SPEECH THERAPY

Music Therapy for SPEECH THERAPY

As we all know that music is such a thing which destresses children or adults. Music makes therapy fun, or exciting and makes the therapy session engaging, which makes learning language and speech a bit easier for a child with a speech disorder. Music attracts most of the children and permits them to participate in the activity quickly. It makes the interaction between therapists and children much comfortable. It is scientifically proven that music has a very positive effect on the development of the brain of children. 

Music Therapy assesses cognitive skills, communication skills, emotional skills, social skills, physical needs, and well being. 

Benefits of Music Therapy 

• Develop coping skills and attention. 
• Increases ability to interact socially. 
• Stimulates and uses many parts of the brain. 
• Increases self-awareness. 
• Increases verbal and non-verbal communication. 
• Increases decision making and sense of control. 
• Enables transference of skills. 
• Enables children to do communicate, participate, and express. 
• Acts as a useful memory aid. 

                              Music in Speech Therapy  

• Using compact disks 
• Using pitch variation 
• Incorporating breathing exercises.  
• Singing familiar or preferred songs with children. 
• Using instruments with pre-established techniques of Speech Therapy 

Music is so powerful and effective that many children begin to communicate when songs are brought into the mix. The use of music in Speech Therapy turns out to be fruitful when children show an increased desire and ability to communicate with others around them. 

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When does a child needs Speech Therapy?

WHEN DOES A CHILD NEED SPEECH THERAPY? 

Most of the parents have this question," How do I know if my child needs a Speech Therapy? While Speech Therapists have many areas of expertise like fluency, stuttering, language issues, etc. 

Speech Therapy for articulation can start with children as early as possible. Different Therapies to improve speech can also begin when: 

• A child cannot produce speech or cannot say words clearly. 
• Children have a problem with speech rhythm and fluency. 
• A child understanding and producing language. 
• Children face swallowing and eating difficulties. 
• Kids experienced cognitive issues such as memory and problem-solving disorders.

All the difficulties mentioned above can occur as a result of neurodevelopment disorders, learning disabilities, hearing loss, brain injury, or stroke. Issues can be developmental, congenital, or acquired. When determining too many errors drawn by the child, a Speech Therapist can identify strategies to overcome the speech disorder of the child. 

Speech Therapy helps children to speak more clarity and also improves communication skills too. This leads to a rise in their confidence level to interact in society. Speech Therapy is more beneficial at the early stage of life. 

Speech Therapy isn't a quick fix because it takes a lot of hard work over months or even years. So, to overcome the speech disorder of your children Take the treatment of speech therapy from IIAHP as soon as possible.    

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Types of Speech Therapy

Types of Speech Disorder

Speech Disorder is a term used for any condition that affects a person's ability to produce sounds and words. It enables the child to produce correct speech sounds. Children suffer from a speech delay and language developmental issues depending on the signs and symptoms shown by children, there are various types of speech disorders.

Significant types of Speech Disorder in children include

1. Voice Disorder

The voice disorder is described as dysphonia in foreign terminology. Depending on the primary cause, the various types of dysphonia are separated by the specifying adjective. Therefore, a vocal disorder originating from paralysis of the larynx is a paralytic dysphonia. Voice Disorder is characterised by some abnormality that may be hoarseness, harshness, breathy, gravelly, or gritty. 

Further, there are two types of dysphonia: the Habitual Dysphonia & the Psychogenic Dysphonia. 

• Habitual Dysphonia occurs from faulty speaking habits. 
• Psychogenic Dysphonia originates from emotional causes. 

2. Articulatory Disorders 

These are a type of speech disorders that involves difficulties in expressing specific kind of sounds. The range of difficulty that a child may experience in expressing are:

• Cluttering- A strange or weird hindrance, cluttering is characterized by sloppy, erratic, jerky, and hasty speech that may seem to be stuttering but differs from it. 

• Lisping- Lisping almost belongs to articulatory disorders and usually has the same cause as articulatory disorders. Lisping occurs due to wrong tongue placement in the mouth in various ways with the tongue tip between the front teeth or extreme tongue pressure against teeth. This causes hindrance to the airflow inside the mouth.
• Stuttering or Stammering- It is a type of speech disorder that includes repetition of sounds, syllables or words, prolongation of sounds, and interruptions in speech. 

3. Dysphasia or Aphasia

 Dysphasia is a type of language disorder in which there is a total or partial loss of speech. Aphasia is an inability or impaired ability to understand or produce speech due to brain damage. In actual, aphasia means the loss of memory for the meaning of language and its production.

4. Apraxia

Apraxia is a type of speech disorder that is caused by an injury to the parts of the brain which helps in speaking. 

All the above speech disorders cause speech delay and language development issues in a child. The IIAHP therapy center provides the best speech therapy treatment for all the speech disorders helping in controlling and curing the symptoms.

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Facts about Speech Disorder

Facts about Speech Disorder

There are essential facts about speech disorder that helps parents in early diagnosing of speech disorder in their child. The knowledge about speech disorder in children is vital for timely diagnosis and treatment. Here is a list of facts that parents must  follow:

1. Early intervention is necessary because children learn 80% of language by the age of 3 years.
   
   
2. By the age of 18 months, a baby is expected to have a vocabulary of 50-150 words and should be able to combine words to form sentences. 
   
   
3. In Speech Disorder, there is one more problem similar to Stuttering, which is Cluttering. Cluttering also affects the flow and fluency of a child's speech.
   
   
4. Children with chronic ear infections are at risk of delayed speech and language. If they can't hear the sound, they won't be able to imitate or produce music.
   
   
5. Sometimes, children suffering from Speech disorder run out of air while speaking. 
   
   
6. Children who depend on others for feeding puts them at higher risk of aspiration. 
   
   
7. Stuttering affects a large proportion of children. 
   
   
8. There are 26 sets of muscles in use when we swallow. 
   
   
9. 94% of children with swallowing issues silently inhale in trace amounts because they are not able to sense when food liquid goes wrong. 
   
   
10. The proportion of 25% to 45% of typically developing children reveal feeding and swallowing problems.
    
    
11. Speech is a wonder! To say a phrase, it takes 100 muscles of the neck, jaw, tongue, & lips must unite. 
    
    
12. Stuttering affects 4 times as many men as women. 
    
    
13. Near about 5% of children go through stuttering, which lasts six months or more. 
    
    
14. In some cases, Speech Disorder arises due to Cleft Palate, which is a common birth defect. Cleft Palate is an opening or a hole in the roof of the mouth. It is often corrected by surgery, but still, a child needs Speech Therapy to overcome Speech Disorder. 
    
    
15. Also, there are abrupt changes in pitch or volume of the speech.

The above facts about speech and language disorder help in the timely and appropriate treatment of the child with the disorder. The IIAHP therapy center provides the most appropriate treatment and speech therapy to children who are not able to communicate and express themselves. Our main goal is to developing speaking, social and behavioural skills of the child with the help of our advanced intellectual programs.

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Effects of Speech Disorder

Effects of Speech Disorder 

Speech disorder in children causes the inability to speak, express and communicate efficiently. In some cases, a child is only able to produce sounds and do not speak words Children display delay communication according to their chronological age. Speech and communication are some of the most important ways of expressing our thoughts and feelings and the inability to express causes in a child’s life. After taking treatment of speech therapy from IIAHP your child do communicate in a very good manner.  

These are numerous effects of speech disorder given below: 

• Limited Expression of Emotions and feelings: The onset of speech disorder brings about various problems for a child. They are not able to convey messages and feelings. Due to poor communication, friends and family members do not understand their wants and desires.

• Limited Social Interaction- Social interaction is an essential component in the development of a child. In the initial years of growth and development of a child, interacting and communicating with the children of the same age group is very essential in the development process. Children learn how to live in a society, patience in dealing with people, and more importantly, the exchange of ideas takes. But, the inability to speak results in limited or negligible social interaction. Such children show no peer grouping.
  
  

• Difficulty in using oral muscles- Children with oral muscle disorder are extremely affected and find it more difficult to use their muscles in lips, jaw, and tongue. It also creates difficulties in eating, speaking, and drinking. 
  
  

• Frustration and Emotional downfall: The struggle in expressing thoughts and feelings brings out frustration in a child. This forces them to think that they can not speak like others do. At times, they face teasing and laugh because of their stuttering speech causing them to become shy, quiet and emotional downfall.

• Developmental Difficulties- Kids with speech and language disorder face difficulties in communicating. It is very difficult for them to use or understand verbal or non-verbal communication. As a result, the overall development of a child gets affected.
  
  

• In addition to all this, children who have Speech Disorder may also have difficulty in learning how to read and spell. A child with a Speech Disorder is believed to have difficulty in following instructions, especially if the instructions are given orally and if they contain multiple steps. 
  
  

Speech Disorder is to be treated as soon as possible otherwise it can create long-lasting effects on the lives of the children. The IIAHP therapy center is known for its best treatment for speech delay in children. The advanced intellectual programs which help in skill and speech development of a child have shown great results. To get the quality of Speech Therapy for your child, visit the IIAHP therapy center. 

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Signs & Symptoms

Speech Disorder Symptoms

The symptoms of speech disorder depend upon the cause and severity of the disorder. Children develop multiple speech disorders with different symptoms. Kids who are not able to respond or vocalize well need therapists' concerns immediately. The IIAHP therapy center is known for providing the best speech therapy to the children having a speech delay and language developmental disorder. 

Children with a speech disorder may experience the following symptoms: 

• Repetition 
  
  
• Prolonging sounds 
  
  
• Adding sound or syllables to words 
  
  
• Rearranging syllables 
  
  
• Difficulty in pronouncing words correctly 
  
  
• Struggle to say the correct word 
  
  
• Speaking in a hoarse or raspy voice 
  
  
• Lack of clarity in speaking 
  
  
• Blinking several times while speaking 
  
  
• Make jerky movements while talking 
  
  
• Distorting sounds 
  
  
• Gravelly sounding voice 
  
  
• Frequent pauses while talking 
  
  
• Visible frustration when trying to communicate 
  
  
• Tension in face and shoulders 
  
  
• Clenched fists 
  
  
• Lip tremors 
  
  
• Sudden head or body movements 
  
  
• Slurred speech 
  
  
• Mumbling 
  
  
• Difficulty in moving tongue or mouth 
  
  
• Speaking in uneven pace: either too quickly or too slowly 
  
  
• Abnormalities with vocal cords 
  
  
• Uses gestures over vocals to communicate 
  
  
• Unable to follow simple directions 
  
  
• Makes cooing sounds 
  
  
• Not paying any attention to sounds 
  
  
• Not able to follow simple directions 
  
  
• Not responding to their names being called 
  
  
• Unable to combine words 
  
  
• Monotonous speech 
  
  
• Uneven speech volume or pitch 
  
  
• Abnormal speech rhythm  
  
  

Some of the major signs that parents should focus based on the age of their child.

• Does not interact with others
  
  
• Do not babble (4 to 7 months) 
  
  
• Make only a few sounds or gestures (7 to 12 months) 
  
  
• Unable to understand what others say (7 months to 2 years) 
  
  
• Speaks only a few words (12 to 18 months) 
  
  
• Words are not so easily understood (18 months to 2 years) 
  
  
• Can't put words together to make sentences (1.5 to 3 years) 
  
  
• Trouble in playing and talking to other children (2 to 3 years) 
  
  
• Problem with reading and writing skills (2.5 to 3 years) 
  
  
• Repeats first sounds of words like- "b-b-b-ball" for "ball" 
  
  
• Speech breaks while trying to say a word 
  
  

On diagnosing your child with any of the above signs and symptoms requires proper care and appropriate treatment. The home plan facilities for the parents in distant places has helped many families in getting the appropriate treatment for their child.

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Causes of Speech Disorder

Causes of Speech Delay 

Speech delay in children has delayed language development according to their chronological age. There are several reasons which are responsible for language disorder in children. Injury to the brain before or after birth can cause speech impairment. The IIAHP therapy center is known for providing the best speech therapy to the children having a speech delay and language developmental disorder. 

The causes of speech delay include:

• Problem with child's tongue or roof of the mouth 
• Hearing loss 
• Listening to disability 
• Developmental disorder 
• Neurological disorder 
• Brain Injury 
• Intellectual disabilities 
• Drug abuse 
• Physical impairments such as cleft lip or palate 
• Respiratory weakness 
• Muscle weakness 
• Strokes
• Vocal cord Damage 
• Polyps or nodules on the vocal cord 
• Dementia 
• Oral cancer 
• Laryngeal cancer 
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 
• Huntington's disease 
• Autism or ADHD 
• Extreme environment 
• Prematurity 
• Life events  

There can be various reasons for a child suffering from speech delay and impairment. This can severely affect many parts of the body like vocal cords, nerves, and muscles. The vocal cords might be a reason why a child may be suffering from it. Vocal cord damage or vocal cord paralysis leads to imperfect speech. 

Muscle weakness or respiratory weakness can also be an essential factor regarding speech disorder, and neurological disorders cause it. As a result, the motor-sensory pathway is affected. Developmental disorders or other medical conditions like Autism, ADHD, Oral Cancer, and Strokes also, lead to speech disorders. 

Genetic factors also affect speech disorder sometimes. If a child carries genes which cause it, and if it is a dominant gene, then the child might have a speech disorder. Speech delay and language disorders may have various causes, but often it is difficult to know why they occur. The speech disorder can be hereditary and can continue to the coming generations.

All these causes can be prevented with these few tips: 

• Talk and play with the child every day 
• Try to communicate with a child 
• Take care of a child's teeth and mouth. 
• Give a child some time to talk 
• Try not to interrupt the child while he/she is speaking.
• Encourage the child to speak but not forcefully. 
• Avoid alcohol and smoking during pregnancy. 
• Do not neglect or abuse the child. 
• Keep the child away from gadgets. 

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