The speech therapist is a care professional trained in various disorders of oral and written expression. Its work consists of both preventing, evaluating and treating speech sound disorders, those of the voice, Dys disordersaphonia or even stuttering.
He is also trained in “to maintain the functions of communication and orality in degenerative and neuro-degenerative pathologies, and to dispense the learning of other forms of non-verbal communication making it possible to complete or supplement verbal functions”, specifies the National Federation of Speech Therapists.
Who can consult it?
- Any child whose parents or school, social or medical environment are concerned;
- Any child whose the development of oral or written language seems difficult;
- Any child whose disability (trisomy, BMI, deafness, etc.) interferes with the installation or development of language;
- Any teenager or adult disturbed in his communication (oral or written): sequelae of previous disorders, accident, trauma, postoperative, brain aging…
How is a speech therapy assessment carried out?
But before a child (or an adult) undergoes speech therapy, which consists of carrying out written or oral exercises to treat the disorders from which he suffers, he must undergo a speech therapy assessment.
This clinical tool makes it possible to assess “the child’s abilities to confirm a diagnosis”. However, the assessment cannot be carried out without a medical prescription: if you think that your child needs to consult a speech therapist, talk to your doctor first.