Speech therapy

In speech therapy sessions, we help children overcome speech difficulties. We use audio-visual methods, speech therapy, auditory perception, teaching and refining the pronunciation of isolated sounds, consolidating correct pronunciation in syllables, words and spontaneous speech. We develop the skills of coherent speech.

For phonemic (auditory) perception, we use, among other conventional methods, the audiopsychophonological method with Besson of Switzerland headphones. This is based on the methodology of the French scientist Alfred Tomatis. Tomatis developed the “Electronic Ear”, a device that uses electronic gates, bone conduction transducers and sound filters to enhance the upper missing frequencies. The aim of this device is to tone the muscles of the middle ear to make the listener sensitive to the missing frequencies. Phonemic awareness is an important element of speech, as it not only helps in the reception of speech, but also in speaking itself. Phonemic awareness also trains the brain, which analyses the sounds we hear. Both brain centres responsible for the perception and production of language are involved. Sound travels through the ear canal and, thanks to the built-in earplates, the sound vibration also travels through the vertebral bone. Most headphones on the market generate a digital signal, i.e. a modified, unnatural, discontinuous (discrete) signal. The sound of Besson headphones is analogue – smooth, close to speech, natural. The analogue signal is continuous in time. All real world signals are analogue in nature. Digital signals are generated by digital modulation – most of the electronic devices around us generate a digital signal.