Speech Therapy

Myths:

Speech therapy is done under the age of 4 years
Speech therapy is only about correcting the language

Speech therapy is not only about correcting the language and learning to functionally communicate.

Skills:

Early detection and diagnosis of speech disorders
Therapeutic intervention – compensatory and consistent with the diagnosis

Types of disorders:

Delays in language development (children aged 2-3 years)
Communication difficulties specific to development delays
Articulation difficulties
Reading-writing language disorders

Why speech therapy in autism? What’s the purpose?

The acquisition of functional communication, not necessarily the acquisition of verbal language
Initially, the child is able to use gestures, images to express himself. The point is the child to be able to make himself understood.

Speech habilitation – another type of speech therapy intervention:

Something very important must be understood: the child becomes mute because of deafness and this is where the deaf-mute notion appeared, giving the impression of a double deficiency, when, in fact, the child is able to anatomically, physiologically and psychologically speak. He shows a normal intellect and must be helped to be integrated into society.
There are no age barriers, but it is known that every child has a greater learning capacity between the ages of 2 and 6, than later.

Speech habilitation is a 4 steps process:

• • 1. The pre speech habilitation stage: when thinking and language are based on images
    2. The speech habilitation start: when thinking and language are based on images and partially on words
    3. The advanced speech habilitation stage: when thinking is based on words and partially on images
    4. The achieving of speech habilitation: when thinking and language have the same characteristics as for a person who can hear