What is speech therapy?
Speech therapy is a type of therapy which helps in treating individuals having speech & language problems by doing several exercises and activities.
Who provides speech therapy?
Speech therapy is provided by an individual who has bachelor’s or master’s degrees Audiology and speech language pathology.
Who needs speech therapy?
Firstly, an SLP will assess your child’s speech & communication abilities then SLP provides speech therapy to those, who has
stammering i.e. interruption in the normal flow of speech
Misarticulation wrong articulation of sound
Slow learner- Problem in learning things normally at adequate speed.
Voice disorder- inadequate pitch, loudness & quality.
Hearing impaired or cochlear implant- those child’s who has delay in their speech & language secondary hearing impairment.
Dysarthria, Aphasia -Neurological disorder
Deft lip & palate or both
What does SLP do in speech therapy?
SLP’s treats individual’s with speech disorders by doing various exercises and activities for various disorders like.
In stammering, an SLP teaches individuals to speak slowly & taking deep breath before initiating sentences and produce words.
In misarticulation, an SLP do various tongue exercises and teach individual’s the physiology of various sounds like this different problems has different solutions.
The SLP’s make therapeutic plans after proper assessment & according to individual’ s problem.
Every individual has different treatment plans.
How we can contact an SLP?
· We found SLP’s in hospital setups, clinic setups and NGO’s etc.
· We can contact to SLP’s provides online therapies to individual’s with speech problems.
· You can consult directly to a speech & language assessment.
What is the qualification of an SLP?
An SLP is an individual who has bachelor’s or master’s degree in the field of audiology and speech language pathology.
