Today, more and more parents are faced with the problem of speech disorders in children. But it is not always clear whether it is necessary to beat over time alarm or problem will be solved by itself. At the same time, the experts should be handled at the first doubts - maybe nothing wrong and there is just a little kid is lazy. Then the main task of the parents will be the maximum stimulation to develop his speech.
However, the recent trend is not just laziness of the child, and the establishment of a variety of diagnoses, the most common of which is dysarthria, having different degrees of severity.
What is dysarthria? Dysarthria - a violation of pronunciation of words associated with damage to the nervous system. A special feature is a deviation of the speech disorder as a whole, not just individual sounds.
According to statistics, these disorders affect between 5-10% of all children, but this percentage is growing every year because there is a certain list of factors contributing to the disease. Common perinatal factors:
• Intrauterine fetal hypoxia
• Rhesus conflict
• Toxicosis
• Injuries and somatic illness of the mother
• Different types of injuries during childbirth
• Abnormal childbearing
• fetal asphyxia during birth
• Nuclear or prolonged neonatal jaundice
• Prematurity
Factors affecting speech disorder at a young age:
• Encephalitis and meningitis
• severe intoxication
• purulent otitis
• Different types of traumatic brain injury
Most often, these traumatic factors have an impact on nerve damage to two years of age. In 80% of cases accompanied by cerebral palsy dysarthria. But there are also less severe symptoms that often go unnoticed by parents.
The degree of severity of dysarthria
Grade I - diagnosis revealed only with the help of experts at a particular study.
Grade II - it is understandable to others, but you can see some of her defects.
Grade III- it is understood only by parents and some relatives.
IV degree - it is not clear even to parents or non-existent.
As long as the kid does not say the first ten words, it is difficult enough to suspect any abnormalities, especially when worn dysarthria, but knowing some symptoms can be time to see a specialist and start treatment:
• Difficult to swallowing reflex. Such children often keep food in his cheek, choke on saliva and food.
• There is excessive salivation, even after six months of age.
• These children difficult to handle a pen and pencil.
• They do not make the pressure by drawing.
• They did not get to sculpt clay, even the usual "bun" or "sausage" they can not afford.
• These kids can not independently lace shoes or buttoning.
• They find it difficult to cut with scissors.
• Difficulties arise when exercising. Such children crouch difficult to dance, they do not get into a rhythm with the other children and look awkward.
• The most common musical ear broken at dysarthria.
How dangerous is dysarthria? Complication of running dysarthria may become distorted auditory speech perception. Severe consequences of this disease can not be held, but incorrect treatment, or in the absence of the child in the future will be difficult to adapt to society.
Which professionals should treat the first signs of dysarthria. Diagnosis and further work on the correction performed by a physician, neurologist, speech therapist and pathologist who prescribed drug therapy and logopaedic correction followed by rehabilitation, comprising yourself:
• The development of fine motor skills with the help of finger games and gymnastics
• Development of articulation with articulation exercises, including massage logopaedic
• Breathing exercises
• Correction of sound mispronunciation
Often when this diagnosis, except for medical treatment and speech therapy, prescribed to children:
• Massages
• Exercise therapy
• Various medical baths
• Hirudotherapy
• Acupuncture
• hippotherapy
• Dolphin therapy
• Peskoterapiyu
The sooner parents find the problem, the more effective and its correction will be faster. Often at an early age, the child realizes that he is different from his peers and therefore can all go to the gestures, instead of an incorrect pronunciation of words. Parents need to be as patient with these children and try as much as possible to encourage them to different pronunciation words and sentences, or such conduct may enter in the habit of crumbs and then the vocabulary is quite poor, and it is not connected. These children do not need to rush - it is extremely difficult to express their thoughts, so at the slightest remark to speak faster, on the contrary, they are closed and do refuse to pronounce any words.
The result of this type of pathology treatment It depends on several factors:
• On how a problem is detected early
• How persistent and patient parents
• The availability of a good specialist
The more efficiently performed all these points, the greater the chance that dysarthria cured completely. Be healthy!
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