Speech is the most valuable ability that a human being is endowed with, to communicate with others. Yet in reality, not all children or adults can use this faculty very effectively. We see children speaking incoherently and even adults stuttering or stammering due to speech difficulties. It is at times like these that one think of consulting a speech-language pathologist.
What is speech therapy?
Speech therapy involves the treatment of adult and children with speaking and non-verbal difficulties to improve their communication skills. This clinical intervention uses the expertise of a speech-language pathologist in identifying the underlying problems that hinder speech and correct it using alternative methods of vocalization.
Why pediatric speech therapy is important?
What are the disorders cured by speech therapy?
The best speech therapists in India work towards improving the articulation, phonological, voice and disfluency disorders faced by children and adults.
Individuals with Articulation Disorders are not able to vocalize coherently and make errors during sound intonation and speech. Their speech is unclear, unintelligible and not clearly expressed.
Such Articulation Disorders may be caused by cleft palate, tooth and jaw problems, nervous disorders like cerebral palsy and also hearing loss.
Children with Phonological Disorders may mispronounce words or have trouble intoning certain vowels or consonants. These phonological disorders may arise due to the malformation of teeth, jaw structure, cleft palate etc, neurological or hearing problems, cognitive difficulties etc. The speech-language pathologist teaches the child to form the lips and rotate the tongue to make the correct sounds and overcome this difficulty.
Rasping voice, quivering voice, very loud or feeble voice quality, improper pitch or timbre etc are some types of voice disorders. Apart from these, nasal defects may cause hyponasality or hypernasality where little or too much air escape through the nose affecting the voice quality. All these vocal disorders may be caused due to damage to the vocal cords, throat infections, nasal abnormalities, laryngeal disorders and even cancer of the throat.
Voice disorders can hamper the routine functioning of normal adults and prove costly for career professionals like singers or actors. Timely intervention by best speech therapists in Coimbatore have saved the voice quality of many celebrity singers.
Stuttering, stammering, head-jerking, eyes- blinking, stretching out words, lengthy pausing, etc are some of the commonly observed disfluency disorders that have been cure by expert speech therapy in Coimbatore.
Dysphagia is the difficulty in feeding or swallowing, and it may be manifested as a hindrance in chewing, biting or sucking food. Some patients face such oral feeding problems like drooling, gagging, spitting etc. need to be addressed immediately by experienced speech therapists in Coimbatore to help the patient regain their health by proper feeding.
Many people have difficulties in communicating in a language where they may have trouble understanding, expressing or using the language in a socially appropriate manner. Such receptive, expressive or pragmatic language problems are best handled and resolved by speech-language pathologists to help the patient improve their language communication skills.
Speech therapy is a comprehensive healing methodology that addresses the entire spectrum of vocal, articulate, language and feeding disorders experienced by individuals and treats them effectively to improve their communication and social interaction. Expert and experienced speech-language pathologists and the best speech therapists in India offer their valuable services at Coimbatore and are ready to help patients regain their communication, confidence and quality of life.
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