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Speech Therapist

A speech therapist is a specialist who diagnoses, treats, and prevents a wide range of articulation issues, correcting pronunciation and eliminating existing defects.
A speech therapist’s consultation consists of a thorough medical history review, patient examination, identifying the cause of the disorder, and prescribing individual or group sessions to address it. You can book a free appointment with a speech therapist online at medbooking.com or by phone.

Development of diction

29 Jan 2025, 11:40
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It is better to start training the diction apparatus from 4-5 years old, when the child learns to make correct movements with the lips. It is difficult to correct the speech of a schoolchild and preschooler, since first it is necessary to correct the motor skill of the lips and jaws.

Speech diagnostics

13 Jan 2025, 23:56
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Speech diagnostics in children is a necessary process. Today it has been proven that with early, targeted work with the baby, correction and compensation of pronunciation pathologies are most effective, and in some cases it is possible to prevent various secondary defects in development.

Correction of aphasia

09 Jan 2025, 02:10
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In most cases, aphasia processes (complete or partial) are caused by stroke, infections and inflammations, as well as dementia. Together, they can cause other deviations that lead to decreased articulation and apraxia.

Stuttering correction

07 Jan 2025, 14:12
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Stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by frequent repetitions or prolongation of syllables, sounds or words. The main signs of the disease are also frequent pauses in speech, which lead to a break in its rhythm.

Correction of FFN

05 Jan 2025, 02:08
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With FFN, there is a disorder of pronunciation, phonemic hearing, which helps to recognize and distinguish phonemes of the language. The pathology is characterized by a violation of sound differentiation, unformed sounds-speech side, violations of the syllabic structure of the word and lexical and

Rhinolalia correction

03 Jan 2025, 10:04
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Rhinolalia is characterized by nasalization of vowels and consonants, distortions of pronunciation, secondary disorders of written speech, as well as disorders of all phonemic processes and underdevelopment of the lexical and grammatical speech side.

Correction of written speech disorders

01 Jan 2025, 15:51
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Dysgraphia is a disorder of written speech. The lack of writing skills originates in early childhood. Spelling skills are developed in preschool and general education institutions. At this time, it is possible to correct the child's problems and prevent the situation from worsening with age.