Rehabilitation Therapy Startagies

  Speech therapy is a kind of therapy that aims to improve an individual’s ability to communicate effectively and addresses issues with speaking, listening, reading, writing, and swallowing. Speech therapist work with people of all ages to address a wide range of communication challenges. Here we are going to know the 9 signs that your child needs speech therapy: 1. Developmental delay : If your child has a history of neurological disorder and developmental delay, they have high risk factors for speech and language difficulties. 2. Difficulty in understanding the commands : For example, if a child has difficulty following commands in day-to-day activities, it may indicate that the child may have a language processing issue . 3. Limitations in vocabulary : If your child expresses limited vocabulary compared to children of the same age, it may indicate that the child may have a speech and language delay. 4. Difficulty in articulating the speech sounds : If your...

We have to start talking to our babies from our pregnancy itself. Did you know that your baby can start hearing you even before birth? It's true! Around 8th week of pregnancy your baby's inner ear begins to form, the and by the 20th week it's develop enough for your little one to start recognizing sounds. The very first sense organ that can become active in the womb is HEARING. So once we start talking to the baby from the pregnancy period, we have to continue the same after the baby’s birth. It will promote their language development , cognitive development , and emotional intelligence . Here we are going to know the benefits of talking to our babies: Our babies will get more awareness of the repeated words that we are using in our daily routine, so they will be familiar with them, and it will improve their experience skills. Then will get more awareness and identification of different sounds. They will start listening to our voice. They will read our face reactions , and ...

  Essential Screen Time for Babies: Tips for Parents Screen time is needed only for children, but it should have some boundaries. Potential screen time will improve children's physical, emotional, mental, and cognitive development. According to the American Academy of Paediatrics (APA), no screen time for babies below 18 months old and high-quality as well as essential screen time for babies 18-24 months old. Here are some tips for parents on how we can provide essential screen time for our babies: • We have to limit our screen time while interacting with them. • We have to engage them through activities. We can provide sensory-based activities also. Example: play music, sensory play (sand play, water play, play dough, finger painting, foam play, etc.). • Encouraging their cooing and babbling. And engage them in activities that will build bonding and interaction. • The environment can be designed like a play area, without a screen. • We can motivate them in outdoor games and small...

Recovering from postpartum depression Recovering from postpartum Depression  is one of the crucial stages for new mothers. In this blog I am sharing my own story. Yes, I delivered a baby boy 9 weeks back. Now I am in my recovery stage. I was working as a speech therapist as well as a consultant psychologist. Before my delivery. I was counselling for children with special needs, but recovering from this postpartum stage was very challenging for me.  I want to share a few tips on what I am following in my recovery stage.· • I am asking for help from my parents and my partner in all my daily routines, such as in cooking and cleaning work and taking care of the baby, as well as me. It’s normal; only our parents and partner will do all this for us. Here I want to strongly say, “Ask for help; don’t hesitate.”· • I was talking to the people who will understand my situation and who will encourage me to overcome this stage. Because please cut down the people who will put you...

 How to increase the child’s communication intend  “My child is pointing what she/he needs”  “My child using very limited vocabulary”  “Unable to initiate or sustain conversation with others”  “Unable to grasp pragmatics of communication"  These are the most of the concern from the parents, who have children with communication disorder.  As a Speech Language Pathologist I am going to share my clinical experience,  on “how to increase the child’s communication intent”.        Dear parents, First we have to increase the child’s requesting skills, demanding, or asking something. Yes which is one of the most important factors for communication. “How to increase and why? “ We can increasing the requesting skills from express the child’s hungry, needs, report of lost and asking something.  Eg: “ I want water” , “I want apple” , I want bat” , I want to sleep” , I want to go to park”.  If the child couldn’t express in sentenc...

 Help me to build my social communication.  Communication means sharing the information between two people, the messager (speaker) and the listener will participate. Once the information received by the listener, the listener will give the feedback to the speaker. The feedback may be in verbal or non-verbal. Social communication means this communication process between more than two people. Yes involving more than two people in sharing the information and giving the feedback process will be considered social communication. Social communication it's like a chain, if any of the link got affected, the hole chain will get breakdown. Now a day difficult in social communication in children with autism Spectrum disorder is a very big issue. It can be solved under proper guidance of rehabilitation team management.  Speech language therapist is one of the members in the rehabilitation team. I am a Speech Language Pathologist and Audiologist. When I am taking the session for a chil...