The next March 6 will be held on European Speech Therapy Day. It was created by the Standing Committee of Speech Therapists of the European Union in 2004. The creation of the celebration aims to raise awareness of the profession in Europe. The main objective is information, visibility, and assistance. Providing information about the various speech, language and communication disordersThe information is for patients, providing information about language disorders and available treatment options.
This day was created in order to inform and raise awareness to political institutions and to society of the importance of speech therapists as wellness specialist of many people around the world and the reach they can have in helping people who suffer language problems.
- What is Speech Therapy?
Speech Therapy is a discipline that deals with problems present in the fields of speech, language, voice and communication from the field cognitive, physical and physiological.
The speech therapist is a professional who works with people of any age with people who have different disorders in human communication. The field of action of the speech therapist includes the early care, health centers, educational centers, etc. The work is basically diagnose, prevent and treat language disorders, both in children and adults. Being a science that studies language disorders language and hearingAlthough they focus primarily on children and their work with them, it is very helpful.
-Problems that speech therapists treat:
Some of the cases that we can find in the daily practice of a speech therapist are:
– Speech, articulation, pronunciation disorders: Dyslalias, dysarthrias, dysglossias, verbal fluency disorders. Such as: (dysphemia or stuttering, dysprosody, bradylalia, tachylalia). Speech delays.
– Oral language disorders: Language development delays, Specific language impairment, Aphasias (strokes or cerebrovascular accidents), language disorders associated with other disorders such as Down syndrome, autism or cerebral palsy.
– Written language disorders: Dyslexia, dysgraphia, dysorthography, reading and/or writing delay.
– Voice disorders: Aphonia, dysphonia (nodules, polyps, Reinke's edema in children and adults; laryngectomees.
– Hearing disorders: Cochlear implants, hearing loss, deafness.
– Communication disorders: Augmentative/alternative communication systems.
– Myofunctional disorders: Hypotonia or hypertonia of the facial muscles, tongue protrusion, velopalatine incompetence, mouth breathing, atypical swallowing, dysphagia.
The celebration manages to increase people's awareness of the language problems It refers to a wide variety of communication disorders and the role therapists play in them. A celebration of this magnitude allows us to show the general public that Speech therapists and therapists have a common goal and are working and giving their best. To this end, they are working together to achieve a greater and more dynamic impact in promoting the health and well-being of children and adults with communication difficulties throughout the European Union.