Benefits of Speech Therapy

Benefits of Speech Therapy 

Speech Therapy is the treatment of speech disorder that focuses on helping special children with impaired speech and swallowing capabilities. Children suffer speech delay and development issues from birth, which requires the timely diagnosis and their treatment. The effectiveness of speech therapy in developing speech and communication skills in children is magnificent.

The benefits of speech therapy include:

Improves oral issues: The speech therapy helps in controlling and curing the oral issues. The treatment helps in the lips, tongue, and jaw movement with proper coordination among them.


Improves Auditory issues: The children having speech disorder also suffer from auditory issues. Therefore, speech therapy given to them helps in improving their hearing and listening abilities.


Better Articulation - Articulation is essential for children who are affected by impaired speech. It is the formation of distinct and clear sounds in speech. As soon as a child learns to articulate words correctly, he/she improves communication skills and confidence. The most common example of this is when children are not able to produce the sound of the word "R". However, Speech Therapy improves all the problems related to speech. 


Improves swallowing - Children with speech disorder often face problems in eating or swallowing as well. Speech therapists or experts use a blend of techniques and exercises to improve the oral intake process and reduce the risk of aspiration. The techniques that improve swallowing capabilities are: Biting techniques, Swallowing activities, Head positioning technique, etc.  


Reduction of stuttering- Stuttering can cause problems in fluent speaking. A speech therapist can help the affected children extremely by improving stuttering to a point where it comes to non-existence. Some techniques to reduce stuttering are: 

• Talk slowly 
• Find rhythm while talking. 
• Avoid certain words 
• Use gestures and pacing to calm the nerves. 
• Pace the breaths while talking  

Improves vocal tone and fluency-The firstmost step to learn a new accent is to understand the speech rhythm that means were to emphasize more and where to emphasize less. Children with Speech Disorder usually face a problem in clarity while speaking. So, Speech Therapy improves the pace and tone of the child so that the child's speech is clear and understandable. 

Increases confidence and reduces anxiety- Children who cannot speak well often suffer from anxiety and low confidence levels. They fear being ridiculed by the people around them. Hence, this leads to the rise of frustration in them. With the help of a good Speech Therapist, a child can improve communication skills. Speech therapy helps the kids to boost their confidence and allow them to exchange ideas more effectively and reduce their anxiety. 

Speech Therapy has many other benefits, as well. The use of advanced intellectual programs at the IIAHP therapy center helps in enhancing verbal, non-verbal communication, along with skill development. If you think your child is facing difficulty in speech, visit the IIAHP therapy center for the best SPEECH THERAPY. 

Read More

Types of Speech Disorder

Speech Disorder is a term used for any condition that affects a person's ability to produce sounds that create words. It prevents children from producing correct speech sounds. 
Speech Disorders are not the same as language disorders. They are very different from each other as language disorder refers to difficulty with children's understanding and use of spoken and written language, whereas speech disorder is a problem or struggles in producing sounds or words. 

Significant types of Speech Disorder 

• Voice Disorders are 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 paralytical dysphonia. In Voice Disorder, voice has some abnormality that may be hoarseness, harshness, breathy, gravelly or gritty. Further, there are two types of dysphonias: the Habitual Dysphonia & the Psychogenic Dysphonia. Habitual Dysphonia occurs from faulty speaking habits, and Psychogenic Dysphonia originates from emotional causes. 

• Articulatory Disorders are a type of speech disorders that involves difficulties in expressing specific types of sounds. 

1. Cluttering- A strange or weird hindrance, cluttering is characterized by sloppy, erratic, jerky and hasty speech that may somewhat seem to be stuttering but differs from it. 
2. Lisping- Lisping almost belongs to articulatory disorders and usually, has the same causes as articulatory disorders. Lisping occurs in various varieties: with tongue tip between the front teeth, with extreme tongue pressure against teeth, in various snorting and nasal subtypes, with slurping noise in the cheek pouch, etc. 
3. 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. 

• Dysphasia or Aphasia- Dysphasia is a type of language disorder in which there is a total or partial loss of language. It may cause reading, writing, and gesturing impairments. 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. 

• Apraxia- Apraxia is a type of speech disorder that is caused by the damage to those parts of the brain that are related to speaking. 

Click the link for more information:- https://www.iiahp.com/speech-therapy/

Read More

What is Speech Therapy?

 SPEECH THERAPY

Speech Therapy is the treatment for the dysfunction of speech and language. Speech disorder concerns the problem of producing words and sounds while a language disorder is somewhat different that refers to difficulty in recognizing words and putting together sentences and ideas for communication.  

SYMPTOMS   

The symptoms of speech disorders vary depending on the cause and severity of the disease.  

Various symptoms of Speech Disorder are:

Repeating or prolonging sounds

Adding sounds or syllables to words

Struggling to say correct word or sound

Speaking with the hoarse or raspy voice

Difficulty in pronouncing the name properly

Distorting sounds

Using improper gestures

Prefer actions over vocals  

            TYPES OF SPEECH DISORDERS  

Repetitions occur when people unwillingly repeat sounds or words.

Blocks happen when people know what they are willing to say but have difficulty making the necessary speech sounds.

Prolongations refer to the stretching or drawing out of specific words or sounds.  

                  SPEECH THERAPY PROGRAM

The particular SPEECH THERAPY treatment includes proper pronunciation, articulation, and
the tone during play exercises and may physically teach a child how to shift mouth or tongue to
Correctly produce a voice. Speech therapists can use play or books to promote interaction and improve
opportunities for language skills development.

We have the best-trained speech therapists for the Speech Therapy who bring out the outstanding potential in special kids.    

NEURO THERAPY
ARCHETYPE THERAPY
CYCLING PROGRAM THERAPY
MUSIC THERAPY
RUNNING PROGRAM THERAPY
BRAIN GYM THERAPY
BALANCE BOARD THERAPY
LOOP THERAPY
MASKING
ORA-FACIAL THERAPY
PRISM THERAPY     

BENEFITS OF SPEECH THERAPY     

Speech Therapy can help kids learn to speak clearly. This helps them feel more confident and less frustrated about talking to others. Children who have language issues can benefit socially, emotionally,
and academically from speech therapy. This can improve reading comprehension skills and encourage kids to read. Speech Therapy also reduces stuttering. Good Speech Therapy improves swallowing and articulation.

Read More