Category Language - Speech Therapy

Around the age of 2, children begin to express themselves with short sentences or small sets of words, however, each one has its own rhythm and that sometimes makes it difficult for parents to differentiate between speech or fluency problems. children. There is a way to find out if our child between the ages of 3 and 5 has a problem: the tests on speech and fluency.

During the first years of life, between 2 and 5 years old, children develop some of the most complex actions of the human being, such as speech and language. At that moment, slight lack of coordination between what the children plan to say and what they end up producing at the oral level is fully understandable.

In the consultations of speech therapists, there are questions frequently repeated by parents and even teachers: Why are there children who mispronounce "r" and "that"? Why can these sounds present difficulties for the little ones? It is no coincidence that these two sounds are always the most common in terms of speech errors and the last to be achieved at the level of children's repertoire.

The voice is an instrument that both children and adults use daily and if it is not cared for and protected properly, it can become damaged, with manifestations of pain and discomfort. Speech therapists usually speak of dysphonia or slightly damaged voice and aphonia or total loss of voice. In addition to educating and training the voice, a recent study carried out by experts from the Claros Otorhinolaryngology Clinic in Barcelona has confirmed that children who sing in a choir have less risk of having voice disorders.

It can be very difficult for a family when it is informed that one of its members suffers from a learning disorder, as is the case in children with dyslexia, especially when this can lead to a myriad of problems for both that child and their environment. This article wishes to take this difficulty and reflect on how parents should accompany and empower these children of ours.

When children begin to express themselves verbally, there are times when they are unable to describe how they feel or say what they want to do. It is normal, they are still acquiring the language that will take them years. Sometimes, it also happens to parents that we are not able to cope well with language in our day to day life.

Childhood dyslalias are alterations in the pronunciation of one or more phonemes either due to the absence or alteration of some specific speech sounds or due to the substitution of these for others. These alterations attract attention when they last beyond four years, since until then they appear very frequently and are part of children's language acquisition when they learn to speak.

Vocal cord nodules are a type of benign bulge that causes speech disorders, mainly aphonia, and in the most severe cases dysphonia. Children with poor speech behaviors, who tend to scream frequently, present in many occasions this type of injury.

Voice is a fundamental communication tool that we use every day, both adults and children. Disorders that affect the vocal cords and prevent us from having good oral health affect children and young people in a special way, since they require language education and care of the parts of our body that intervene in the process speech.

& 39; He'll talk & 39 ;. That phrase that is sometimes said without thinking can hide a developmental language disorder (LDD) or developmental dysphasia and that is nothing more than a difficulty in processing language. Its diagnosis is confusing, since many times a shyness of character is attributed to the child when the circumstances are different.

Learning difficulties in reading, writing and mathematics (also known under the terminology of dyslexia, dysortography and dyscalculia) are increasingly known and diagnosed, but much less known is the difficulty in the area of ​​language (known as developmental disorder of the language or under the acronym TDL), covering both the difficulties at the written level and the difficulties at the oral level.

The symptoms of stuttering depend on the stage in which the child develops the disorder. Some experts on the subject determine that stuttering has four stages. Throughout these stages, stuttering develops. Learn to detect the symptoms of each stage to detect this speech disorder early.

Claudia Patricia Groesman is the General Secretary of the Spanish Foundation for Stuttering, which has been created five years ago by parents of children who stutter, in order to inform and raise awareness among all those families who are affected by this difficulty in children's speech and communication, and trying to improve their quality of life.

Language is one of the main work objectives for any speech therapist, since it has a relevant role in functions that are so important for the moment in which the child begins to produce sounds and, subsequently, to speak and, of course, also in the process of food (chewing and swallowing).

Breathing and voice are two processes that are closely related, to the point that speaking correctly depends largely on knowing how to breathe well. It is very important that children learn to breathe well so that they have healthy phonation from a young age and avoid the appearance of discomfort related to language and the respiratory system.

The Lidcombe method, developed by Professor Mark Onslow of the University of Sydney, is a program focused on the early treatment of stuttering, and is already used by 80 percent of Australian speech therapists. The novelty of the Lidcombe method is that It is a program in which parents help their children in their daily environment.

The acquisition of the first words is one of the most relevant events in the development of the child. But what if the child is 3 years old and still does not speak? On our site we will see some of the possible causes and solutions. It is important that in each of the periodic reviews with the pediatrician you expose your doubts and concerns about your child's language and speech.

When the child begins to pronounce his first words, the parents are excited. They are small sounds (pa-pa, ma-ma) that little by little making the tongue get stronger. Later other phonemes will arrive, such as ta, ra, da, until you finally acquire that ability to carry on a conversation.

The beginning of speech and its first sounds is one of the first items of child development that most concerns parents, along with motor development (crawling, sitting, walking, etc.) and feeding (nutrition, weight, etc.) ). Therefore, below, we will provide you with a list that summarizes the six stages of language acquisition in children, that is, how they incorporate sounds and speech, and we will do so thanks to the latest studies by Susanibar, Dioses and Tordera (2016).