Disappointing statistics show that almost all children, and even some adults, have certain problems with the correct development of speech. Every child is different, so each needs to be approached individually. A three-year-old kid refuses to build sentences, is naughty when they cannot understand him, and expresses himself with gestures. The first grader never learned to clearly express his thoughts, to conduct a dialogue. A good speech therapist, who is sometimes not so easy to find, will help to sort out all these problems. Let's try to delve deeper into this problem, to understand the issue. Where to find a good speech therapist in Moscow and St. Petersburg? Here are the most popular centers.
Speech therapy centers in Moscow
Below are some centers of speech therapy and defectology in Moscow. All specialists have passed qualified training as a speech therapist, have the appropriate certificates, diplomas, licenses. You can make an appointment with them online without leaving your home. An individual approach will be found for each patient.
Speech therapy center "Swallow". The largest center has several offices. Develops speech and puts sounds to children. Provides professional assistance in correcting diction in adults. A speech therapist in the presence of parents fully examines the speech of the child. Reveals a violation of speech defects and prescribes further treatment. Lastochka offices are located in the center of Moscow, in the South-Western Administrative District, in the Central Administrative District and in Cheryomushki.
Children's center "Logos". Located on the 5th street of the Yamskoye field, 27. Conducts individual and group classes with children with speech development disabilities.
Children's Polyclinic of the Literary Fund. Located at: st. Krasnoarmeyskaya, 23a. A multi-disciplinary medical center. The Department of Speech Therapy is very popular among Muscovites.
Children's Academy of Speech. st. Novocheremushkinskaya, 49. Individual or group lessons. Defectologists, speech therapists, psychologists and neuropsychologists work at the academy.
Inquisitive giraffe. Etc. Birch Grove, 6. Speech therapy services, clubs for teenagers and children, methods of preschool development.
Speech therapy centers in St. Petersburg
The best speech therapists in St. Petersburg are visiting clinics in the city. We list the most popular.
"Baby" on Antonova-Ovseenko, 5. Not far from the Elizarovskaya metro station. A speech therapist E. G. Kiseleva works in the clinic. She deals with all the problems of speech development, logo massage, speech therapy classes, and professional examinations.
Fidem Clinic. Not far from Novocherkasskaya metro station. Malookhtinsky pr-t, 61a. Speech therapist Usanova I. I. has 11 years of experience, conducts diagnostics in children from 2, 5 years old, works with non-speaking children from 3 years old. Engaged in full staging of speech with practiced diction.
Gromova's clinic.st. Kirochnaya, d. 7. Speech therapist Gromova Lidia Vasilievna has 39 years of experience. Deals with all speech delay problems.
"Dynasty" on the street. Repishcheva, 13. The multidisciplinary clinic has a modern department of speech therapy. Reception is conducted by an experienced speech therapist Kovalenko T. A. with 18 years of experience. Deals with speech disorders in both children and adults.
The development of speech in a child
Speech is the highest human function, which is formed in the general physiological process of development. Lack of or over-stimulation of it can lead to stress. Speech develops in several stages: pre-speech (cooking, babbling, individual sounds) and speech (words, sentences). These stages should fit into a time frame that all parents should be aware of. Knowing the age norms, attentive parents should deal with the baby, if problems arise, contact specialists. An individual speech therapist will help to put the child's speech, whose classes you need to attend regularly. Parents who do not see a problem if a child lags behind in speech development think that with age he will catch up with his peers himself. In this they are deeply mistaken. Speech delay aggravates the child's psycho-emotional state, does not allow him to fully communicate, learn about the world around him, as a result, a lot of children's complexes arise.
What are speech therapy problems?
From an early age, a child can develop a variety of speech therapy problems, speech disorders. by the mostthe following are common:
- delayed psychoverbal development,
- general underdevelopment of speech,
- violation of the structure of the articulatory apparatus,
- dyslalia,
- alalia,
- tempo delay in speech development,
- dysarthria,
- speech delay,
- dyslexia,
- aphasia,
- voicing/stunning,
- dysgraphia,
- softening,
- lack of attention,
- pedagogical neglect,
- hearing problem.
Correct all these problems will help a corrective speech therapist, to which parents should bring their child. Lack of attention, however, as well as its excess, can lead to negative consequences, the child will not learn to speak correctly. With a lack of communication, the baby practically does not hear the speech addressed to him, they talk little to him, do not communicate, as a result, there is no full development. Later, when the child joins the team, it turns out that he is completely unable to communicate - to build sentences, to answer questions. If any speech defects are found, it is necessary to contact the center of speech therapy and defectology. In Moscow, St. Petersburg, any other city, knowledgeable specialists will help solve the problem.
Where can I find a good speech therapist?
There are not enough speech therapists in kindergartens, and those who do have no time to conduct classes often with all the children. There is only one way out for parents - to look for a private practitioner. How to find it? Answer a seriesthe main questions that arise when looking for a speech therapist.
What is the experience and qualifications of a speech therapist? With this question, it is worth starting an acquaintance with the teacher. Well, if he himself offers you to look at the documents confirming his qualifications. The diploma should read “teacher-defectologist, speech therapist”. If you have a professional portfolio, then you should make sure how long ago the qualification of a speech therapist was confirmed, whether the teacher often attends courses to improve it, and whether he seeks to develop his knowledge.
Does the chosen speech therapist have experience in solving the exact problem you are facing? For example, not every specialist will take a child with dysgraphia or stuttering. The more experience a speech therapist has, the better they can help you with a specific problem.
The question price? Naturally, all parents are interested in the cost of classes, because financial opportunities are different for everyone. It should be borne in mind that a speech therapist does not work with preschoolers for more than half an hour. With first-graders - from 40 to 60 minutes. A well-known speech therapist in Moscow will cost more than a specialist in the provinces, this is natural.
Do you and your baby feel comfortable with a speech therapist? It is normal when, at the first contact, the child will not always be able to open up to a stranger. But this is what professionalism is all about, in order to find an approach to the child as quickly as possible. If this does not happen after several sessions, consider whether there is any benefit from visiting this specialist.
How long should I practice? What is the guarantee of results? A competent speech therapist will immediately be able to determine how much time it will take toproblem solving. Already at the first positive results, he will let you know about it. The speech therapist looks at the dynamics of classes and advises most often to conduct at least ten lessons. Some parents are not happy with this, but what can you do, everyone should understand that it is simply necessary to engage in the speech of the child.
How to fix the correct pronunciation of the sound
Parents must attend classes with a speech therapist and consolidate the result at home. Continuous training - this is advised by a good speech therapist. As in any business, the result does not come at once, this should be understood by all parents who want their child to have a correct and beautiful speech. Everyone should act together: the speech therapist, the child, and the parents. Timely development of speech is the key to the full development of the child, his further success in school. The participation of mom and dad in classes should not be one-time, a system is needed that preserves the integrity of the entire process of staging speech. Sometimes parents are disappointed when the baby finally pronounces the problematic sound separately, but does not use it in words. The speech therapist is on the right track, he set the tone, parents should join in and bring the process to automatism. For example, staging the sound "sh" will gradually appear in all words.
Reminder before class
When planning your homework, always remember that it should be systematic. The kid is able to remember only on the basis of constant repetition. Do not abandon classes, otherwise the process of automationwill drag on.
- Choose the right time to practice. Do not tear your baby away from games, watching a cartoon, otherwise he will develop a negative attitude.
- Complete classes before the child asks for it. Spend no more than 20-25 minutes a day.
- Children always need praise. Do not evaluate their actions negatively with the words “wrong”, “inattentive”, etc. Try to find softer assessments.
- Your main assistants in your studies are benevolence, praise, patience, endurance. If something does not work out, beware of a harsh tone, swearing. The kid in the process of training should feel comfortable.
- Don't start with the hard stuff. First, give simple tasks, if the child finds it difficult to answer, ask leading questions.
- To form speech self-control in a child, a good speech therapist advises to introduce the set sounds in ascending order: first - in syllables, then - in words, and only then - in sentences and speech.
Automation of sounds in syllables, words, sentences
In syllables. The pronunciation of individual syllables and syllable combinations is the most important setting point in automation. With a successive change of syllables, the articulatory apparatus switches. Pronouncing syllables and showing them on the fingers, the child develops fine motor skills. Open syllables like "consonant + vowel" - ry-ru-ra. Closed syllables like "vowel + consonant" - ur-or-ar.
In words. The main thing at this stage of automation is to teach the child to distinguishsound in words, where it is: in the middle, beginning or end. Phonemic awareness is formed. To the sound “r” - “Call it affectionately”: brother - …, mountain ash - …, sister - …, toy - …, chicken - …, hand - …
In sentences. A good speech therapist always advises to conduct classes in the form of a game. Give the child two words with the same sound and ask them to think about how these words are related. For example: river and cancer, moon and sun, pencil and pen, and so on. The child will make sentences with these sounds, and they will quietly enter into his speech, set in place.
Speech therapy games with children
It is necessary to prepare subject pictures from colored cardboard. A few pictures with automated sound and a few with others. A speech therapist assures that such games reinforce work efficiency.
"Build a house". Build a house from pictures-bricks for a given sound. House for Larisa. Bricks are selected only with those pictures in the words of which there is a sound "l". Develops phonemic perception, reinforces the correct sound pronunciation.
"Collect the flower." Automated sounds on pictures-petals and the middle of a flower. Picking up the petals with sound and pronouncing the words, the child collects the flower. After he has collected it, the teacher asks the child to close his eyes and turns over a few petals. The child must remember what words were in these pictures.
"Sunshine". The teacher asks the child to collect the sun from the rays, and you need to choose only those on whichan automated sound is specified. After the work is finished, the kid must position the sound in the word.
"Collect the apples." The speech therapist tells a fairy tale about how the wind blew, the animals lost their baskets. In the hare's basket you need to collect apples with a picture with the letter "z", dogs - with the letter "c", chanterelles - with the letter "l".
Staging the sound "sh", the sound "s"
Work with the sounds "s" and "sh" is placed at the beginning or in the middle of the correctional work. Setting them is not particularly difficult, as well as further automation. But the differentiation of these sounds is not entirely easy for children. Any qualified speech therapist in Moscow will confirm this. But it is these sounds that are most often found in words. If they are introduced into speech, successfully delivered, and differentiation is not sufficiently worked out, then whistling and hissing are heard in the child's speech. Subsequently, this problem may result in the incorrect spelling of words with these sounds. That is why differentiation should be given special attention.
"Ball Game". Remember how sounds are friends with each other in words. The speech therapist pronounces syllables and throws the ball to the child, who, repeating these syllables, throws the ball back. Sa-sha, su-shu, sa-sa-sha, shu-shu-su, shi-shi-sa, su-su-sha, shu-su, sho-so, so-sho, se-she, sha- su.
"Guess the word". The child must choose the appropriate sound. We…b, …uba, su…a, …harf, …kaf, …anki, …apogi, …oroka, …ova, ko…ka.
"Dividing words into syllables". Make up words from the cards and ask the child to divide them into syllables, then make sound patterns. Cat, sa-ni, mouse, co-ba-ka, su-sha, shu-ba, shish-ka, sos-na.
Such simple games will help the child to easily differentiate sounds, his speech will become clear, correct, beautiful.
