Language
Speech
Voice
Swallowing
Breath
LRS

Speech disorders

  • Difficulty understanding the patient
  • Single letters (sounds) are not pronounced correctly
  • Oral muscles or tooth or jaw position conspicuous
  • Let’s talk out
  • Repeat the mispronounced correct (corrective feedback)
  • As often as possible tell what they do in everyday life or what they see (as if they are having self-talk)
  • Talking to the patient a lot
  • Training of the oral muscles
  • Air flow control training
  • Training perception
  • Training of auditory processing
  • Hearing disorder, hearing loss
  • Facial malformation (e.g. lip jaw-palate column)
  • Neurological diseases (e.g. cerebral palsy)
  • Intellectual disability (e.g. Down syndrome)

An inadequately treated speech disorder can lead to an LRS (read-/spelling disorder)

Speech disorders

  • Unclear pronunciation
  • Communication (severely) restricted
  • Letters (sounds) are not pronounced correctly
  • Mouth muscles conspicuous
  • animate to speak out loud
  • Quiet surroundings
  • Time to pronounce
  • draw attention
  • Don’t “take the word out of their mouth”
  • Training of the oral muscles
  • Training perception
  • Training of auditory processing
  • Training the clear pronunciation
  • Training compensation

Voice disturbances

  • Constant clearing of the throat
  • The voice is not resilient at work
  • A lump feeling in the throat
  • The voice sounds different

These are individually adjusted within the therapy.

Swallowing disorders (dysphagia) + eating disorders

  • Increased salivation
  • frequent ingestion while eating or drinking
  • Food goes down badly
  • Training of the oral muscles
  • Training of throat muscles
  • Training of respiratory muscles
  • Training perception
  • Training compensation
  • Choose your own pace
  • Keeping mouth shut
  • Swallow as vigorously as possible
  • Chewing long
  • After each drink, swallow once
  • Pulling your head when swallowing slightly towards the chest
  • Avoid distraction
  • after operations
  • Parkinson
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Physical/mental disabilities
  • Neurological diseases such as ALS, MS, Huntington’s disease

Breathing disorders

  • shortness of breath
  • Effort to speak
  • Problems with volume

These are individually adjusted within the therapy.

LRS-Reading/Spelling weakness

  • Failure to accumulate while reading, writing or reckoning despite intense practice
  • Inattention when writing, reading and/or calculating
  • Hyperactive
  • Rules are learned but cannot be implemented
  • Normal developed child
  • Stay calm
  • Praising for unrepeated mistakes, even if similar mistakes are made elsewhere
  • Address the teacher to it
  • Give the time needed
  • Try to explain in different ways
  • Pointing out strengths
  • SPC (social pediatric centre)
  • Pediatrician
  • speech therapists and occupational therapists
  • Learning therapists
  • Inheritance
  • omit development steps (e.g., do not crawl)
  • Auditory perceptual and processing disorders
  • Acquired by psychological or physical causes
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