Speech therapy is a reconstructing process or treatment of physical and cognitive disorders resulting in difficulty with oral communication. Language related issues will be in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantic, pragmatics.
Depending on the nature and severity of the disorder, treatments vary or range from collaborative teaching, physical strengthening exercise, repetition of speech practice, drilling to exposure of audio-visual aids.
Speech therapy is done by a speech therapist or speech pathologist. This process involves various steps – Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment to prevent disorders of speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, swallowing, fluency, and so on.
TEST MATERIALS | TIMING | |
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1.    LANGUAGE ASSESSMENTS: | ||
FOR CHILD | ||
i. | Receptive and Expressive Emergent language Scale(REELS) Extended REELS |
20 Minutes |
ii. | Assessment of Language Development | 30-45 Minutes |
iii. | Communication Matrix | 30 Minutes |
iv. | 3 Dimensional Language Acquisition Test | 20-30 Minutes |
v. | Scales of Early Communication Skills For Hearing Impaired | 20-30 Minutes |
FOR ADULTS | ||
i. | Western Aphasia Battery | 45 Minutes - 1 hr |
ii. | Manipal Manual for cognitive linguistic Abilities. | 45 Minutes |
2.    MOTOR SPEECH DISORDER: | ||
i. | Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment | 30 Minutes |
ii. | Apraxia Battery for Adults | 30 Minutes |
TEST MATERIALS | TIMING | |
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3.    VOICE DISORDERS: | ||
i. | GRBAS | 10-15 Minutes |
ii. | Consensus Auditory Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE- V) |
10-15 Minutes |
iii. | Voice Handicap Index (VHI ) | 10-15 Minutes |
iv. | PRAAT | 15-20 Minutes |
4.    SPEECH SOUND DISORDERS: | ||
i. | Tamil Articulation Test | 20 Minutes |
ii. | AYJNIHH Intelligibility rating scale | 10-15 Minutes |
5.    FLUENCY DISORDERS: | ||
i. | Stuttering Severity Instrument (SSI) | 15-20 Minutes |
ii. | Stuttering Prediction Instrument (SPI) | 15-20 Minutes |
iii. | Overall Assessment of the Speakers Experience of Stuttering (OASES) | 15-20 Minutes |
iv. | Predictive Cluttering Inventry (PCI) | 15-20 Minutes |
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