SPEECH THERAPY

Speech therapy can help you improve your ability to communicate. Sometimes it is also called speech therapy.  But what is the difference?

Speech therapy is usually about therapy to improve articulation and how sounds and words are produced. It involves the vocal folds, jaw, tongue, lips, teeth and hard and soft palate. In therapy, oral motor skills are often trained to produce specific speech sounds. However, speech therapy also refers to the treatment of disorders of the flow of speech as well as voice disorders and helps in the habilitation and rehabilitation of these disorders.

Language therapy, divided into expressive speech (the ability to use language) and receptive speech (the ability to understand language), targets vocabulary and the ability to put words together to make sentences. Speech therapy can also address listening comprehension, the ability to follow verbal instructions and understanding spoken language. As children get older, therapy can also treat social communication disorders and deficits in written language and reading comprehension.