Speech therapy
Speech therapy is a field of medicine that studies the types of speech defects, the causes of their occurrence, symptoms and features of the course of these disorders, and also develops correction methods that affect speech disorders not only in children, but also in adults.
A specialist who represents this area of medicine
Speech therapy is a field of medicine that studies the types of speech defects, their causes, symptoms and features of the course of these disorders, and also develops correction methods that affect speech disorders not only in children, but also in adults.
A specialist who represents this field of medicine is a speech therapist.
Symptoms that require contacting a speech therapist:
- delayed speech development;
- speech comprehension disorders;
- stuttering;
- defects in pronunciation of sounds;
- speech rate that is too slow or too fast;
- cerebral palsy;
- speech disorders due to a stroke, paralysis or paresis of muscles larynx.
Diseases that speech therapy studies:
- aphonia (lack of sonority with preservation of only whispered speech);
- dysphonia (impaired speech sonority);
- dyslalia (lisping, burring);
- logoneurosis (stuttering);
- tachylalia (slow speech);
- bradylalia (accelerated speech);
- dyslexia (impaired reading skills);
- rhinolalia (nasal voice);
- speech disorders due to deafness;
- pronunciation disorders due to surgery or injuries.
Diagnostics and treatment measures in speech therapy
For successful treatment, the patient must undergo the following examinations:
- physical examination;
- speech examination.
After conducting examinations and collecting anamnestic data, the speech therapist prescribes a method for correcting the identified speech disorders, provides advice on conducting special exercises for proper breathing and managing one's own speech, explains the principles of forming certain sounds and, if necessary, recommends consultation with doctors in other fields of medicine.
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