Speech Therapy

A speech therapist is a specialist in speech and language pathology who studies, diagnoses, and works to eliminate disorders of speech, language, and voice, as well as on the rehabilitation of speech and language impairments and the acquisition of reading and writing skills.

A speech therapist assesses a child’s speech and language status, that is, evaluates both receptive (understanding) and expressive (production) speech. This involves assessing the child’s ability to start speaking and to understand the instructions given to them.

In addition, the therapist evaluates the speech organs. Depending on the child’s specific problems and needs, different therapeutic methods are introduced, through which the child and the therapist work together to support speech development.

A speech therapist also provides education and guidance to the family on how to act, adapt, and meet the child’s needs depending on the type of disorder.

Speech therapy treatment includes:exercises for proper breathing, speech-motor exercises, use of articulation and massage tools (TalkTools), stimulation of initial speech, eliciting sounds, voice correction, vocabulary and sentence expansion, exercises for attention and concentration development, exercises for visuomotor coordination, exercises for developing graphomotor skills, support in learning to read and write, as well as stimulation of appropriate socio-emotional development.