BACKGROUND Language development is one of the most significant processes of early childhood development. Children with delayed speech development are more at risk of acquiring other cognitive, social-emotional, and school-related problems. Music therapy appears to facilitate speech development in children, even within a short period of time. The aim of this pilot study is to explore the effects...

Velopharyngeal dysfunction in cleft palate patients following the primary palate repair may result in nasal air emission, hypernasality, articulation disorder and poor intelligibility of speech. Among conservative treatment methods, speech aid prosthesis combined with speech therapy is widely used method. However because of its long time of treatment more than a year and low predictability, som...

Children who experience speech delay, especially in their expressive language skills will have difficulty pronunciation. Therefore, therapy is needed helping the problems faced by children. The purpose of this study was to analyze stages at Kitty Center Green Garden, activities optimizing skills, identification supporting and inhibiting factors delay children's after attending therapy. This typ...

communication, cognition, language, and speech are interrelated and develop together. it should come as no surprise to us that the key to intervention with deaf children is to establish, as early as possible, a functional communication system for the child and the parents. early intervention programs need to be multidisciplinary, technologically sound and most important, it should take cognizan...

This paper deals with the use of interjections in early language development and children’s literature special emphasis on syntactic role meaning statements and/or verses. In communication children, poetry picture books, as well speech, replace nouns, verbs adverbs, i.e., they have a different function which is proven by examples. Special also being placed interjections’ exclamations goes beyon...

The efficacy of acceptance and commitment group therapy program on social anxiety speech fluency in adolescents with stuttering

The timing of surgery for velopharyngeal dysfunction has been based on assumptions about the relation between age, speech development, and velopharyngeal dysfunction. Cleft palate teams often counsel parents to have an intervention for velopharyngeal dysfunction performed earlier rather than later, believing that earlier interventions result in more rapid or better normalization of speech. The ...