Menu

Articulation of Speech

Articulation of Speech

What is Articulation of Speech ?

Articulation or speech production is the clarity with which syllables and words are produced. Speech therapy for articulation involves regular exercises to help a child form correct words and syllables in a way that they are comprehensible. Articulation not only involves the way vocal cords vibrate but also the way lips, tongue, palate, cheeks, and throat works. Articulation defects are seen in children suffering from anatomical disorders, cleft lip or palate, pathologies, or developmental disorders. The disorders may range from mild ones where syllables like ‘r’ are pronounced as ‘w’ to more severe cases where words are all mumbled up and one cannot make proper sense of them.

  • Hemodialysis is a treatment to filter wastes and water from your blood, as your kidneys.
  • Did when they were healthy. Hemodialysis helps control blood pressure and balance.
  • Important minerals, such as potassium, sodium, and calcium, in your blood.
  • Hemodialysis can help you feel better and live longer, but it’s not a cure for kidney failure.
  • You may be able to do hemodialysis at home. Normally, hemodialysis begins well before your kidneys have shut down to the point of causing life-threatening complications.
SRMHHHH
SRMHHHH

What is Articulation of Speech ?

Articulation or speech production is the clarity with which syllables and words are produced. Speech therapy for articulation involves regular exercises to help a child form correct words and syllables in a way that they are comprehensible. Articulation not only involves the way vocal cords vibrate but also the way lips, tongue, palate, cheeks, and throat works. Articulation defects are seen in children suffering from anatomical disorders, cleft lip or palate, pathologies, or developmental disorders. The disorders may range from mild ones where syllables like ‘r’ are pronounced as ‘w’ to more severe cases where words are all mumbled up and one cannot make proper sense of them.

  • Hemodialysis is a treatment to filter wastes and water from your blood, as your kidneys.
  • Did when they were healthy. Hemodialysis helps control blood pressure and balance.
  • Important minerals, such as potassium, sodium, and calcium, in your blood.
  • Hemodialysis can help you feel better and live longer, but it’s not a cure for kidney failure.
  • You may be able to do hemodialysis at home. Normally, hemodialysis begins well before your kidneys have shut down to the point of causing life-threatening complications.
SRMHHHH1

How is it done?

  • And speech therapist assesses the child’s articulation and phonetic defects from mild and moderate to severe. Once the level of disarticulation and the cause are known, speech therapy is started.
  • Regular exercises involving the movement of lips, tongue, palate, and mouth will be performed. Exercises to loosen stiff vocal muscles will be done.
  • Modeling exercises and narration can be incorporated into a child’s playtime to help with the speech.
  • The child will be encouraged to read the syllables they have trouble with and practice spelling them out properly. One should never imitate a child’s articulation problem.
  • Interventional procedures may be done to correct the anatomical defects of the vocal muscles, following which, regular progressive speech rehabilitation will be done.

How is it done?

  • And speech therapist assesses the child’s articulation and phonetic defects from mild and moderate to severe. Once the level of disarticulation and the cause are known, speech therapy is started.
  • Regular exercises involving the movement of lips, tongue, palate, and mouth will be performed. Exercises to loosen stiff vocal muscles will be done.
  • Modeling exercises and narration can be incorporated into a child’s playtime to help with the speech.
  • The child will be encouraged to read the syllables they have trouble with and practice spelling them out properly. One should never imitate a child’s articulation problem.
  • Interventional procedures may be done to correct the anatomical defects of the vocal muscles, following which, regular progressive speech rehabilitation will be done.

Related Treatments

Auditory Habilitation and Auditory Rehabilitation

Auditory habilitation is performed to assess, diagnose and identify problems such as hearing loss and impaired hearing. Exercises to communicate well with children who have not yet developed proper hearing and speaking abilities come under habilitation. Auditory rehabilitation is the group of procedures put in motion to regain hearing ability or to improve normal communication to whichever extent possible in children and adults who are aurally impaired.

Read More

Cognition

Cognition is the mental process of behaving, rational thinking, action-taking, memory, awareness, and judgment. As age grows, people experience cognitive function losses. Speech therapy directed towards alteration in speech and vocal coordination loss due to cognitive changes is called cognitive speech therapy. Due to attention span loss, concentration, and orientation loss, a person’s normal speech articulation can be affected, resulting in repeated speech, disoriented speech, mumbled speech, and more.

Read More

Fluency Disorders - Cluttering and Stuttering

These disorders affect the fluency of speech. Cluttering refers to rapid, unclear, or disorganized speech whereas stuttering refers to the repetition of the same word or syllable till the individual can get the sentence out of their mouth. In cluttering, the patients usually do not intend to say some words making the whole speech disorganized exile in stuttering, the patient is aware of what they want to say but just cannot say it smoothly.

Read More

Related Treatments

Auditory Habilitation and Auditory Rehabilitation

Auditory habilitation is performed to assess, diagnose and identify problems such as hearing loss and impaired hearing. Exercises to communicate well with children who have not yet developed proper hearing and speaking abilities come under habilitation. Auditory rehabilitation is the group of procedures put in motion to regain hearing ability or to improve normal communication to whichever extent possible in children and adults who are aurally impaired.

Read More

Cognition

Cognition is the mental process of behaving, rational thinking, action-taking, memory, awareness, and judgment. As age grows, people experience cognitive function losses. Speech therapy directed towards alteration in speech and vocal coordination loss due to cognitive changes is called cognitive speech therapy. Due to attention span loss, concentration, and orientation loss, a person’s normal speech articulation can be affected, resulting in repeated speech, disoriented speech, mumbled speech, and more.

Read More

Fluency Disorders- Cluttering and Stuttering

These disorders affect the fluency of speech. Cluttering refers to rapid, unclear, or disorganized speech whereas stuttering refers to the repetition of the same word or syllable till the individual can get the sentence out of their mouth. In cluttering, the patients usually do not intend to say some words making the whole speech disorganized exile in stuttering, the patient is aware of what they want to say but just cannot say it smoothly.

Read More
touch-illustration
Contact

Book an Appointment

    SRM Hospitals specializes in advanced healthcare in several specialty departments providing affordable treatments to all patients.

    Facebook Twitter Youtube Icon-instagram-1 Linkedin
    Quick Links
    Contact Us
    © 2021 SRM Hospitals, All rights reserved.