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Speech Therapy Can Help With Speech and Language Problems

October 24th, 2009

Elmer Fudd may get a laugh every time he hunts for that “wascally wabbit”, Bugs Bunny, but speech-language disorders are not laughing matters. It can be painful to not be understood or to be ridiculed for voice problems. It is estimated that 5% of school-age children have some type of language disorder. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association breaks disorders into two types, speech disorders and language disorders.

Information To Help You Understand Speech Disorders

There are a number of struggles and areas of concern that fall under the speech disorder category. They include the following: slurred speech, pitch problems, articulation, vocal quality, and stuttering.

Language Disorders - What Are They?

Language Disorders are broken down further into two categories: expressive and reception. Expressive people have trouble saying what they desire. This is difficult because expressive language disorders are based on a struggle of putting words together, using their language skills appropriately, and building vocabulary. Whereas the receptive language disorder is more of a struggle in comprehension or understanding what is said (language).

Help Is Available If You Seek It Out

Speech and language disorders may require treatment by a professional speech-language therapist. These therapists are trained to identify communication problems by using specialized testing methods.

Therapist Can Help…But How?

Often the therapist will work with the individual on a one-to-one basis, using techniques that have been proven to improve the person’s speech, language, voice and cognitive abilities. Some of the treatments a therapist may use are teaching correct pronunciation through modeling, repetition, and exercise. It’s best to start treatment early and continue until the therapist and patient feel that maximum results have been achieved.

Who Can Be Helped?

A speech therapist can help with speech and language problems caused by many things. Areas that typically are treated by speech therapist are as follows: cleft palate, hearing impairments, weak oral muscles, brain injuries, and autism.

If you want to get started, Karen Barta is a Speech Therapist in Denver, Colorado. She provides services to help with slurred speech and so much more!

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Hypnosis CD to Stop Stuttering

October 18th, 2009

Hypnosis CD to Stop Stuttering

This CD was made for our company by world-famous Ken Grossman. Strongly supportive back-up for stammerers. Hypnosis sessions cost up to $300. You can benefit from this session over and over again for one low price.

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Stammering, Its Cause and Cure (Kindle Edition)

October 15th, 2009

Stammering, Its Cause and Cure

This book investigates the stammering, its cause and its cure. The author introduced his twenty years of being a chronic stammerer and his courage to search for a cure of his speech defect. The book investigates the nature of stammering and stuttering and the method for curing them. The author had cured himself and hundreds of other stammers by following the method he introduced.

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Stuttering: Its Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment (Paperback)

October 1st, 2009

Stuttering: Its Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment

This highly readable, clinically oriented book combines theory and therapy and examines all facets of stuttering, from possible etiologies through assessment to treatment. While considerable uncertainty still exists regarding the precise cause(s) of stuttering, Conture provides the reader with an even-handed coverage of fundamental knowledge, methodology, and procedures for effectively dealing with stuttering in children, teenagers, and adults. The book goes beyond a “how to” manual. Rather, Conture’s clinical handbook provides both students and clinicians a source for principle-based procedures and strategies for the management of stuttering. Focusing on people who stutter as people first and people who stutter second, the material covers assessment and management of stuttering within the realities of everyday living, concomitant speech and language problems and clinical practice. For those in the fields of communication science and disorders and speech pathology.
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