{"id":345289,"date":"2023-09-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/working-on-verbal-dyspraxia-with-a-speech-and-language-therapist\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:00:00","slug":"working-on-verbal-dyspraxia-with-a-speech-and-language-therapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/working-on-verbal-dyspraxia-with-a-speech-and-language-therapist\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on Verbal Dyspraxia with a Speech and Language Therapist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Common, dyspraxia<\/a> is a learning disorder affecting 5 to 7% of children aged 5 to 11: it affects the performance of certain voluntary gestures and actions. Affecting 1 to 2 children in 1,000<\/strong>, verbal dyspraxia<\/strong> more specifically creates difficulties with speech<\/strong>. Let’s find out together how a speech and language therapist can gradually ease the consequences of this disorder through rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

Verbal dyspraxia: definition, cause and symptoms<\/h2>\n

While verbal dyspraxia<\/a> targets difficulties with speech, this doesn’t mean the child’s muscles aren’t working properly, or that they lack stimulation. This specific language development disorder results in a deficit in phonological and phonetic planning,<\/strong> as well as in the motor execution of speech<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In practice, the child with DYS struggles to articulate sounds and words clearly, despite clear effort. They may pronounce the same word differently within a few minutes: a “boat” might become “doat”, then “oat” or “poat”. Learning seems to constantly have to start over.<\/p>\n

A child with dyspraxia will find it easier to pronounce one-syllable words<\/strong> like “pot” or “hand”, whereas combining two syllables will be harder<\/strong> (“pepper”), let alone longer words<\/strong>, which represent a significant challenge for them (“chocolate”).<\/p>\n

Dyspraxia appears from the child’s first year<\/strong>, showing itself, between 10 and 15 months<\/strong>, through a lack of babbling, difficulties with feeding, gagging, and a lot of drooling. Up to age 2<\/strong>, they still don’t say many words, rarely imitate sounds and noises, and continue to drool. At preschool and school age<\/strong>, as the child remains hard to understand, they compensate with gestures and facial expressions, while constantly working out how to position their mouth to form the word.<\/p>\n

What impact does speech and language therapy have?<\/h2>\n

Clinical observations tend to show that verbal rehabilitation<\/strong> in children with dyspraxia improves speech motor skills, even if progress is very slow. Speech and language therapists focus their sessions on<\/strong>:<\/p>\n