Speech Therapy For Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy is a group of neurological disorder which can be seen in early childhood that affects movement, muscle tone, or posture.
Children with cerebral palsy mostly have speech problems. Cerebral palsy can affect a person’s ability to finely coordinate the muscles around the face, throat, neck, and head. This leads to cause problem in speech and swallowing.
Speech therapist helps cerebral palsy patients to improve speech, communication by strengthening the muscles used for speech. sometimes persons with cerebral palsy may also have difficulty in hearing and face problem in understanding of spoken speech.
Through speech therapy following problems can be solved in cerebral palsy children-

Misarticulation
Problem in pronunciation
Stuttering/ fluency disorder
Listening
Language problem, word comprehension
Dysphasia/swallowing disorder
Drooling
Chewing problem
Voice problem
Breath support and control
Communication is very much essential in overall development like cognitive, academic, social, & emotional development. As the child learns to speak better, can get benefits in other aspects of life and develops in a better way.