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Aphasia
 

Aphasia is an acquired disorder of a person’s speech, most often the result of a stroke, craniotrauma, or brain tumors. Patients with aphasia have difficulty remembering words. Sometimes, they are not even able to express them verbally at all.

Developmental and acquired dysarthria

Dysarthria is a disorder of motor speech. Developmental dysarthria is a problem resulting from congenital motor disabilities in children, most often from cerebral palsy, or from disabilities acquired in early childhood. Acquired dysarthria most often occurs as a result of a stroke, craniotrauma, or degenerative diseases.

Dysphagia - swallowing disorders

Swallowing disorders affect both children and adults. In children it is usually a problem resulting from a congenital neurological disease (e.g. cerebral palsy or syndrome defects). In adults it is frequently the consequence of strokes or other neurological diseases. Patients with swallowing disorders have difficulty controlling the bite in the mouth and then swallowing saliva or food with solid, semi-solid, or liquid consistency.

Communication disorder in dementia

In patients with dementia, communication problems can appear at the very beginning of the disease. This is often the first reason that leads the patient to the doctor. Problems can be manifested in gradually increasing difficulties in understanding spoken or written words, disorders in the reproduction of some words, simplification of expression in the form of poor and empty sentences, or difficulties in writing or reading.

Dyslalia
 

Dyslalia indicates a malfunction of one or more sounds. These are most often problems resulting from insufficiently developed auditory differentiation of individual sounds (e.g. the replacement of the K sound with that of T) or problems resulting from the incorrect motor realization of the sound (e.g. the “interdental” formation of sibilant consonants—hissing sounds—, or velar R formation, so-called “burring” or “ratcheting”—pronouncing one’s R wrongly at the back of one’s mouth).

Developmental dysphasia
 

Developmental dysphasia or specifically impaired speech development is a disorder that affects all levels of speech—vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and comprehension. However, developmental dysphasia is characterized not only by speech difficulties but also by markedly uneven development of the whole personality. It is a severe speech disorder requiring intensive and regular care not only in the office of a clinical speech therapist but also in the home environment.

Delayed speech development

It is generally said that if children lag significantly behind in speech development at the age of three (e.g. they speak little or even do not express themselves verbally, speak incomprehensibly, or are not interested in communication), it may be delayed speech development.

Balbuties - stuttering
 

Disruption of speech can occur at any age, mostly in the form of repeating individual sounds, syllables, words (e.g. “w-w-w - what”), their prolongation (e.g. “mmmmmom”), or unnaturally long pauses in speech.

Tumultus sermonis - cluttering

Tumultus sermonis indicates difficulties manifested by an unduly accelerated pace of speech. At the same time, some sounds may be omitted or repeated or even stammered.

Myofunctional disorder
 

Myofunctional disorders refer to imbalance problems with orofacial (facial) muscles. These are incorrect movement patterns that arise due to incorrect habits. Causes may include frequent inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, allergies, adenoid vegetation, a shortened sublingual bridle (frenulum), or persistent bad habits.

A psychological examination of children and adults focusing on:

• intellectual abilities
• memory skills
• assessment of school maturity
• help in overcoming school difficulties
• the evaluation of autism spectrum disorders, etc.

Therapeutic assistance to:
 

• people with health problems
• people who have found themselves in a difficult life situation                        

Training in cognitive abilities for people of different ages and different diagnoses:
 

• clients who have had a stroke
• clients recovering from accidents, etc.

The diagnostics of autism spectrum disorders

Recently, we started using the comprehensive diagnostic method ADOS, which allows us to determine whether a child suffers from autism spectrum disorders or autism (childhood autism) and what the degree of symptoms is (from low to high).

Further info

Reading and writing as playing

The group is based on training according to D. B. Elkonin. This method forms the basis of future reading.

To school with a smile

The group is intended especially for children before the start of school (also for children with a planned postponement of school attendance).