Abstract:
Language disorders can be remedied or recovered through specialized speech therapy intervention, associated with drug and non-drug treatment. In the paper, the directions of activity of the speech therapist in the language disorder dysarthria are pointed out. The authors who developed these methods have their own point of view and emphasize certain components of the defect structure. Articulatory difficulties resulting from dysarthria are treated by speech therapists, using a variety of specific techniques, depending on the effect dysarthria has on articulatory control. Traditional treatments aim at correcting deficits in frequency (articulation), prosody (distinctive stress and inflection affected by apraxia of speech, right hemisphere brain damage, etc.), intensity (voice intensity, affected in hypokinetic dysarthria, such as, for example, in Parkinson's disease ), resonance (the ability to modify the vocal tract and resonant spaces for correct speech sounds), and phonation (control of the vocal cords). The levels of speech therapy intervention in each form of dysarthria are presented.
