What is Speech Therapy?

Speech Therapyspeech therapy

Speech therapy

(Discipline)

Speech Therapyspeech therapy

Originally refers to a set of behavior-related techniques and methods designed to correct vocalization and articulation defects, such as stuttering. Now also refers to techniques and methods for the rehabilitation of aphasia and the treatment of developmental speech disorders.

Speech therapy is a professional discipline for the treatment or correction of speech impairments by speech therapy professionals. Its content includes assessment, diagnosis, treatment and research of various speech disorders, and it is aimed at adults and children with various speech disorders. Speech disorders include aphasia, dysarthria, speech retardation in children, vocal disturbances, and stuttering. People who work directly in speech therapy are called speech therapists or speech therapists.

Chinese name: Speech therapy

Foreign name: speech therapy

Speech Therapyspeech therapy

Speech therapy aphasia

Classification of Chinese aphasia: ^[1]

1. Broca aphasia ^[1]

2. Wernicke is aphasia ^[1]

3. Complete aphasia ^[1]

4. Conductive aphasia ^[1]

5. Pure words deaf ^[1]

6. Pure word dumb ^[1]

7. Transcortical motor aphasia ^[1]

8. Transcortical mixed aphasia ^[1]

9. Mixed transcortical aphasia ^[1]

10. Naming aphasia ^[1]

11. Subcortical aphasia ^[1]

12. Dyslexia ^[1]

13. Dyslexia ^[1]

Speech therapy for dysarthria

1. Motor articulation disorder ^[2]

According to neuroanatomy and speech acoustic characteristics, it is divided into six types: spastic type, retarded type, dysfunctional type, excessive exercise type, weak exercise type, and mixed type. ^[2]

2. Organic articulation disorder ^[2]

It refers to dysarthria caused by abnormal morphology and structure of articulatory organs. It is represented by cleft palate and tongue or maxillofacial surgery. ^[2]

3. Functional articulation disorder (functional articulation disorder) ^[2]

It means that the pronunciation error appears to be fixed, but there is no obvious reason for the articulation disorder. ^[2]

Speech therapy for children with stunted speech

It means that during the development of children, their language development stage has not reached the level corresponding to their age. However, this does not include other types of language disorders such as language retardation caused by hearing impairment and dysarthria. ^[2]

The causes of language retardation include hearing impairment, autism in children, mental retardation (mental retardation), and specific disorders limited by language learning. ^[2]

Speech Therapy for Hearing Impairment

1. Conductive deafness ^[3]

2. Sensorineural hearing loss ^[3]

3. Mixed deafness ^[3]

4. Central deafness ^[3]

5. Pseudo-deaf ^[3]

Speech Therapy

It is also called dysphonia, which is a common vocal abnormality in daily life. The causes of the disease are various. Generally, it is divided into two categories, namely organic vocal disorder and functional vocal disorder. ^[3]

Speech therapy stuttering

It is a kind of impediment to speech fluency, commonly known as "stamming." The World Health Organization's definition of stuttering is: Stuttering is a disorder of speech rhythm, that is, stutterers cannot express clearly what they want because of involuntary voice repetition, prolongation or interruption. ^[3]

Speech therapy for advanced brain dysfunction

Cognitive dysfunction, the common clinical manifestations are: structural apraxia, unilateral neglect, apraxia, apraxia, memory impairment and so on. ^[3]