People who are faced with such a disease, very hard to live without a speech. The speech may disappear, or it may be grossly violated. Some patients suffer from so-called sensory aphasia: a person does not understand the speech that is spoken well or confuses the words. Others try to say something, but they get indiscriminate sound combinations, consisting of an inarticulate set of sounds, scraps of words (motor aphasia).

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There is also a third group of patients whose speech is not complete, it is very difficult for them (sometimes impossible!) To pronounce a sound or a series of sounds (dysarthria).

When patients enter our rehabilitation center, several specialists (multidisciplinary team) are engaged with them:

A physical therapist, an ergotherapist, a speech therapist, a neuropsychologist. The main role in the restoration of speech is given to the speech therapist and neuropsychologist. Physical and social recovery also contributes to the improvement of the speech function, as the patient is involved in the communication process with other Speech therapy in Orange specialists.

The main principle of rehabilitation is the early beginning of restoration of lost functions. Because During this period, the most intensive recovery of the affected structures of the brain departments occurs.

And one more very important rule

Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to encounter the common mistake of relatives who, after hearing the first correctly spoken word after a long silence, ask for it again and again. This is absolutely unacceptable! In this case, the probability of occurrence of a speech "embol" in the form of this word is high and it will be very difficult for a person to "switch", start to pronounce other words and phrases.

The degree of speech disorder after a stroke or head injury is very different: from a relatively mild violation of pronunciation to a severe, total absence of speech. Accordingly, the choice of methods for restoring speech will depend on the degree of defeat of the speech function.
We need to start recovery from well-preserved speech stereotypes in memory - names of relatives, ordinal count, and familiar verses, singing with words. And modeling situations that "push" these words. This technique is called "disinhibition of speech." It is used at an early stage of recovery in various forms of aphasia (speech decay as a result of cerebral circulation disorders).

About Aimee Capple: Aimee Capple is a clinician who is experienced with both children and adults . She is one clinician for the entire length of your service request. She is also someone who has been working in the local district for the past 10 years.