What are speech and language disorders? It is a difficulty in verbal communication that can manifest itself as a complete inability to speak, inability to use vocabulary appropriately, inability to understand the other person’s speech, and inability to speak clearly with sounds. Children show this by not being able to speak, speaking late, and speaking unclearly.
When is speech training needed?
Many parents present with complaints that their child does not speak when they are old enough to speak, or that they do not speak clearly. The purpose of speech training is to stimulate, prevent, compensate and restore speech and language function. What are the conditions for speech training? Language training is performed with the following diagnoses of disease.
1. Childhood cerebral palsy
2. Mental retardation
3. mental retardation
4.Down syndrome
5, Delayed language development
6.Dysarthria
7, organic dysarthria after cleft lip and palate surgery
8.Stuttering
9.Autism
10.Hearing impairment (deaf children)
11.Swallowing disorder
12.Children with acquired aphasia
The above diagnosis requires language training or instruction.
Speech and language disorders are manifested by the following manifestations.
1.Can’t speak when they reach the age of speech
2.Low speech (expression into sentences)
3, unclear speech
4.Inattentiveness
5, abnormal behavior
6, stereotypical behavior
7.Rhyme abnormality
8.Abnormal intonation
9.After starting to speak, their development is slower or more stagnant than other normal children
10. Low language skills even though they can talk
11. Language use, vocabulary, and grammar use are lower than those of children of the same age
12. Communicate only with words, not in sentences
13. Poor response to questions
14.Difficulty in understanding language and following instructions
The content of the training includes
1, attention training
2. Training of gesture symbols
3.Auditory training
4.Training of sound symbols
5.Sound organ movement training
6.Articulation training
7.Sound discrimination training
8.Training to improve comprehension
9.Training of oral expression
10.Training to expand the volume of vocabulary
11.Phrase training
12.Grammar training
13.Word training
In addition: children have a golden period of language development is before 3 years old, the earlier the training, the better the effect, around 7 years old basically completed the development of language.
I hope that parents can have an understanding of speech and language disorders, have problems, timely treatment.