Speech Rehabilitation is a rehabilitation technique that improves speech function through various means of targeted treatment for patients with speech disorders.
Speech rehabilitation can help patients regain their maximum ability to communicate. However, it is not suitable for patients with serious consciousness disorder, emotional disorder, behavioral disorder, intellectual disability, as well as severe dementia or mental illness. Speech rehabilitation training methods mainly include the following.
1. Relaxation rehabilitation training: for people with tight throat muscles and high muscle tension in the limbs, it can be improved by relaxing the muscle tension in the limbs.
2. Respiratory rehabilitation training: For patients with severe dysarthria, breathing is often very poor, often accompanied by severe short expiratory phase, which is difficult to form a certain pressure under the vocal folds and the oral cavity. Therefore, at this time, you can take the supine position calm breathing method to improve the quality of training, or you can also take the transition state calm breathing and sitting position calm breathing method.
3. Slow down the speed of speech training: for patients with dysarthria, most of the sounds will be distorted or out of rhythm due to spasm or uncoordinated movement, at this time, you can use a metronome to control the speed, start from slow and gradually become faster, so as to increase the clarity of the patient’s speech.
In addition to the above methods, there are many other methods of speech rehabilitation training, the specific way of rehabilitation training needs to be evaluated by a doctor.