Speech Therapists at The Children's Hospital Mumbai
Speech therapy helps to improve the speech and language skills by providing assessment, therapy, and management of infants, children and adults who have communication issues.
It is provided in six areas like phonology and articulation, pragmatics, semantics, morphology, and syntax as well as fluency and voice.
The speech and language difficulties may arise due to various reasons and may vary from person to person.
In children:
- Developmental Delay
- Intellectual Disability
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Cerebral Palsy
- Down Syndrome
- Stuttering
- Voice disorder
In adults:
- Apraxia
- Dysarthria
- Stuttering
- Voice disorder
- Aphasia
The therapist works on:
- Understanding of language
- Expressive language skills
- Social communication skills
- Correct production of sounds
- Improving the voice quality
- Improving the fluency of speech
- Dyspraxia