What is speech therapy

`Speech therapy is the science that deals with the study, prevention, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of disorders of language, speech, social communication, voice, fluency, swallowing, oral motor, reading and writing in children and adults. These difficulties can be due to developmental delays, birth complications, stroke, brain damage, learning difficulties, motor difficulties, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, hearing loss and other problems that can affect in the mechanisms of speech and language.

Speech therapist is a professional and licensed professional to work with children and adults who may have one of the aforementioned disorders. Speech therapists offer a wide range of services, mainly on an individual basis, but also as support for individuals, families, support groups and the provision of information to the general public.

Pathologies treated by speech therapy are:

1. Articulation disorders

2. Stuttering

3. Mutism

4. Speech and language delays

5. Autism spectrum disorder

6. Learning difficulties

7. Genetic syndromes

8. Intellectual disability

9. Disorders of voice and its resonance

10. Difficulties from ORL pathologies

11. Aphasia

12. Disarthria

13. Apraxia

14. Vocal cord paralysis etc.

Speech therapists offer a wide range of services:

-mainly on an individual basis
-support for individuals
 -families
 -support groups
 -provision of information to the general public.