When a child needs a speech therapist?

Each parent eagerly awaits the first words from his baby. But when this happens, parents sometimes have not only a sense of joy, but also anxiety. After all, when the speech of the baby becomes wrong, you can not be calm.

Deviations from normal speech in children are common. The hearing and the level of psychophysical development are normal. Sometimes violations are insignificant and the child does not pronounce correctly just a couple of words or letters. But even if there are minor problems with speech, you need to show the crumb to the speech therapist.

It is not so difficult to find a good speech therapist. Some kindergartens provide qualified speech therapists. However, it is best to show the child to a private speech therapist or speech therapist working in a polyclinic. There are even special groups in which speech therapists deal with children who have problems in speech development.

Signs of speech disorders in a child

Speech therapists have to deal with a variety of speech disorders - from mild to severe. It is especially difficult to eliminate complex cases. After all, the crumb suffers not only from incorrect pronunciation, but also from psychological discomfort. Such problems can prevent a child from joining the team.

Children should be able to speak normally at the age of two. If this does not happen, the baby should be shown to the doctor as soon as possible. If you do not find the problem in time and do not deal with it, later the child may experience a secondary lag in the speech.

Children with such a disability experience difficulties in communication and learning: letters, reading, accounts and so on. Sound insufficiency entails a limited perception of speech generalizations, images, letters, sounds, and the like. Against the background of all these problems, the child has a psychological trauma that leads to self-isolation, coarseness to others, hysterics and other disorders in behavior. Children with such problems need a special approach in order not to aggravate the situation.

If the violations in speech are not very pronounced and the child goes to kindergarten without any problems, then one should choose the right tactics of behavior with the child. Some parents avoid speech therapists, believing that with age everything will pass. But this can not be done.

Stammering in children

Stammering occurs very often - in about 20% of cases. Stuttering is a change in the normal rhythm, smoothness and tempo of the speech sound. The cause of this phenomenon can be convulsions of certain parts of the speech apparatus, which can occur for a variety of reasons. In order for parents to find out this problem in time, they should know about the first signs of this violation:

Speech rhythm disorder

A child can make involuntary pauses in speech, repeated repetition of whole syllables or individual sounds. Most often, stuttering occurs in children at the age of three. But it can manifest itself at a later age. As a rule, stuttering occurs after severe psychological stress.

Sudden silence in the child

It happens that on a background of strong emotional stress the child stops for a while, and then begins to talk with a stammering. In such cases, you need to see a doctor as soon as possible, so that he helps the child smoothly and gently out of the stressful state. If you ask for help in a timely manner, chances are great that the child will stop stuttering.

Appearance of unnecessary sounds in the speech

If a child often uses excessive sounds in a speech, for example, vowels "o", "a", then it is worthwhile to show it to a speech therapist as soon as possible.

Repetition of words or syllables at the beginning of the sentence

Sudden pauses in the middle of the sentence

Numerous observations of neurologists suggest that almost all children who have stammering have problems with the CNS( it is weakened).Therefore, to successfully get rid of stuttering, you need to establish the cause.

Causes of stuttering

As mentioned above, very often the weakening of the nervous system leads to stuttering. Weaken the nervous system can infectious diseases, even chickenpox or an acute cold. In addition, severe stress can cause stuttering. After all, the child's psyche is very fragile and vulnerable and it is very easy to damage it. Children do not tolerate even the slightest changes in their lives.

Psychologists claim that stammering may appear in those children whose parents force the child to read poetry aloud and tell something to the public. Constant repetition of the same phrase can lead to stuttering, so do not force the baby to do something against his will.

Sometimes stammering develops in those children who begin to talk after three years, and they begin to do it very intensively. But, as a rule, in such cases, stuttering passes by itself and quickly.

Sometimes stammering is accompanied by a violation of the fine motor skills of the hands. This is noticeable even with an unaided eye. Therefore, with such phenomena the child should be shown as soon as possible to the speech therapist and psychologist.

Dysarthria in children

Dysarthria occurs when the CNS is disturbed in a child. With this disease, the child can not correctly pronounce sounds or even whole words. This disease requires long and complex treatment. Only after a complete examination the doctor can reveal the severity of the disease.

Children who suffer from dysarthria suffer from the limited normal mobility of the musculature of the maxillofacial apparatus and facial muscles. Speech is very specific: it is indistinct and smeared. The voice is quiet and weak. Children with such a violation try to spend as much time as possible in silence.

There are several factors that can trigger the development of this disorder:

Complications of a normal course of pregnancy

Most often with intrauterine infection of the fetus, the causative agent of toxoplasmosis is dysarthria.

Complications during the generic process

If, during childbirth, the toddler is injured or complications, in the form of hypoxia or the like, then the risk of CNS damage is high, which increases the risk of developing dysarthria.

Infectious diseases

Various infectious diseases can lead to the development of the disease. Encephalitis and meningitis increase the risk of the disease nine times.

Other speech disorders that require the help of the speech therapist

Stammering and dysarthria are just two of the main diseases in which a child has speech problems. In medicine, there are many diseases in which a speech disorder can occur, and when the help of a speech therapist is simply necessary.

Dyslasia is a violation in which the child incorrectly pronounces sounds( misses them or distorts them).Also, with such a violation, a child can simply replace one sound with another. If you do not treat this disease, then later the baby has problems with written speech.

Rinolalia is a violation of the voice timbre. Most often, this disorder occurs due to various defects in the anatomical structure of the speech apparatus. For example, cleavage of the hard and soft palate, trauma of the nasal or oral cavity, paralysis of the soft palate, adenoids, polyps and the like.

Alalia is a partial or complete hypoplasia of speech in children of three to five years. It develops due to the defeat of speech areas in the left hemisphere.

Speech therapist also needs help with such diseases: phonetic-phonemic speech underdevelopment, speech development delay, general speech underdevelopment and the like.