The delay in speech development in children is expressed in a later (in comparison with the established norm) mastering the skills of oral speech. It manifests itself:
- Qualitative and quantitative undeformed vocabulary.
- The absence of a phrasal speech for the child by the second birthday.
- The absence of a coherent speech in 3 years.
Only a timely rendered qualified correctional help, as a rule complex, will allow a child with a delay in speech development to speak, and will not allow a pronounced lag in the overall development.
Methods of treatment of delayed speech development in children
Most parents mistakenly believe that in order to cure the delay in speech development in the child and help him to speak, it is enough only to practice with a speech therapist. However, such a specialist will be able to teach a baby to correctly pronounce sounds and letters, and effective corrective work consists, first of all, in a combination of methods of treatment for specialized specialists:
- Drug therapy involves the appointment of various medications that promote the development of speech skills.
- With the diagnosis of "delayed speech development," the child is often prescribed magnetotherapy and electroreflexotherapy. They are able to selectively restore the work of think tanks, responsible for speech, diction, vocabulary.
- Alternative treatment involves an individually tailored program depending on the characteristics of the child and the causes of the onset of the disease. It can be dolphin therapy, hippotherapy and others.
- Logopedic massage is what is most often prescribed for the diagnosis of speech retardation in a child and gives very good results, due to the impact on specific areas of various parts of the body.
- In addition, parents should not rely only on doctors. There is a whole complex of exercises that require not just a daily but an hourly repetition.