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What is Speech Therapy?

  • Speech therapy is a treatment that helps to improve the ability to speak or communicate effectively either verbally or non- verbally.
  • Speech therapy focusses individuals of all ages from children to older adults.
  • It addresses issues with understanding of language, expression of thoughts, voice problems, fluency problems, clarity issues in speech and also swallowing problems.
  • It also ensures improving one’s quality of life by helping to express themselves.

When to start speech therapy?

  • According to researches, Speech therapy is more beneficial if started in the early stages of life, before 3 years of age and likely to benefit until 6 years of age.
Milestones of Speech and Language Development
    • Once the milestone check doesn’t meet the child’s age appropriate skill, the child can be taken to a Speech Language Pathologist for an expert opinion.
    • Few examples of the milestones are
Age- 1: Says very few meaningful words(2-5)  words; Waves bye- bye.
Age- 2: Begins combining two words like Dada come, Mamma go, etc.; Uses 15- 20 Single words; Identifies and says body parts.
Age- 3: Uses 3 word Combination; Begins asking questions frequently; Identifies and says common concepts like fruits, vegetables, shapes, colors, etc.
Importance of Speech therapy
  • Speech Therapy is a proven and effective treatment for all kinds of Speech, Language and Communication disorders, provided the child is taken early to the intervention and equal participation in the home environment is available.
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