Empowering Every Voice
Speech therapy has many benefits for children, including improving communication so they will be able to express thoughts and feelings, enabling them to speak so that others will understand what they are saying, preparing them for school so that they can keep up with other children in learning, improves vocal quality, and increases self-esteem and independence.
Providing children without a voice a way to communicate through unaided and/or aided communication (e.g. no tech communication books, low and mid tech communication devices, high tech communication devices and/or communication apps). Speech and language therapy is not just about speech; it also includes language. Many people have a misconception that speech therapy is just about the speech but it is so much more than that.
Appropriate pragmatic/social skills are a key component to interacting with others in their community and life. When you have limited, or have no functional speech, pragmatic language skills are often significantly delayed and disordered. Social skills can be targeted with the use of video modeling, role playing, specific therapy apps, social stories and other various strategies and tools. The use of aided communication with these strategies to work on improving these social skills is an important aspect of speech therapy.
Speech delay can cause problems listening, reading and writing. Reading and literacy skills can significantly aid in communication. When you can spell, you can communicate freely. Teaching these essential skills can be the key to better communication with others.
Work on other communication strategies to aid communication such as gestures, sign language, approximations, vocalizations, and/or other means of communication. As humans, we communicate with a total communication approach. We communicate via speech, facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, writing, typing and many other forms of communication.
Speech Therapy is an important part of overcoming:
Speech therapy helps children improve communication skills with other children and adults. It focuses on improving speech muscles through special exercises. Speech exercises involve repeating sounds and imitating the speech therapist.
Therapy should begin as soon as possible. Children who start therapy early (before they're 5 years old) tend to have better results than those who begin later. This doesn't mean that older kids won't do well in therapy. Their progress might be slower, though, because they have learned patterns that need to be changed.
From a child learning to say their first word to an adult regaining speech after a stroke, our speech therapy program has witnessed life-changing transformations. The joy of a parent hearing their child call them "mama" for the first time, or a teenager finally expressing their thoughts clearly, is what drives our work at Adhyayan.
Helps with Communication
Providing children without a voice a way to communicate through unaided and/or aided communication devices and apps.
Helps with Social Skills
Appropriate pragmatic/social skills are a key component to interacting with others in their community and life.
Helps with Reading
Reading and literacy skills can significantly aid in communication. When you can spell, you can communicate freely.
Enhances Alternative Communication Methods
Work on other communication strategies such as gestures, sign language, approximations, vocalizations, and other means of communication.
Reduces Communication Frustrations
Speech therapy helps children improve communication skills with other children and adults. It focuses on improving speech muscles through special exercises.
