This disease usually develops in the background of insufficient development of the speech center in the cerebral cortex of the baby. So the doctor can prescribe the effective treatment alalia the baby, it is important to recognize abnormalities at an early stage.
Speech alalia diagnosed in approximately 1% of preschool children and 0.2-0.6% of children of school age, boys its development occurs in 2 times more often. Child with alalia need of psychological, medical and pedagogical influence, which must necessarily be comprehensive, include a drug therapy, and the development of mental functions, connected speech, lexical, grammatical and phonetic and phonemic processes.
What it is?
Alalia - a speech disorder in children, the mechanism of which is based on the pathology and the insufficient development of the speech centers of the cerebral cortex. Pathological changes usually occur in utero or early childhood period (up to three years), because they are difficult to diagnose.
Characterized by the disease to insufficient or complete absence of speech.
Causes of
Such factors lead to diseases:
- Intrauterine hypoxia.
- In utero TORCH-infection.
- Constant threat of miscarriage.
- Toxicosis.
- Injuries during pregnancy.
- Chronic medical illness pregnant - low or high blood pressure, pulmonary, heart failure.
Most often it provoked alalia complicated births, perinatal pathology. In some cases the disease develops in the case of birth asphyxia, intracranial trauma during child birth or rather fast, and using different tools.
symptoms alalia
Disruption of the functioning of certain parts of the brain leads to the birth of babies alalia, which may have had mild speech defects, medium or severe impairment (Child not talking to ten, sometimes twelve or his speech was limited to a rather meager vocabulary and characterized agrammatichnostyu despite prolonged training).
Consider every form in detail.
Motor alalia children
Motor alalia in children manifests itself in their inability to pronounce words clearly. But in most cases, children with this form of the disease are not able to talk at all. They just keep silent. Although there extraneous speech perception can be, and is not broken.
Alalia motor - is the inability of the child to repeat the pronunciation of sounds, syllables or words. The child understands all the words, gestures can show their value. But there is no pronunciation. The reason - the violation of communication speech centers of the brain with the bodies of the vocal apparatus.
Even more severe disorders - sensorimotor alalia. In this condition, the child does not understand the extraneous speech, it does not have the ability to recognize it and can not talk. Sensorimotor alalia occurs in about 3.7% of cases from all diseases.
Touch alalia children
Touch alalia in children manifests itself in the fact that the baby does not take extraneous speech. At the same time he observed speech disinhibition. It is difficult to interrupt the flow of speech in this kid and make him hear you say it.
The reason lies in the sensory alalia weak voice analyzer in the cerebral hemispheres. Nerve impulse to it can reach a low state or not at all reach. There is a loss of nerve signal transduction pathways.
Mixed alalia
Symptoms and treatment of mixed alalia very serious. With this disease the whole sensorimotor cortex impressed. Sick children not only do not understand what parents say, but also can not talk. This form of pathology to treat the most difficult, and even a comprehensive approach does not guarantee a positive outlook.
The illness can appear gradually. If the 1.5 -2, the absence of coherent speech of a child's parents do not cause strong fear that the same defect should alert you in 3-4 years. Pathology has a direct effect on the cerebral cortex. To treatment was as effective as possible, try to identify the disease at an early stage of development.
alalia treatment in children
Treatment of the disorder is based on the test results and the degree of symptoms and, therefore, will be developed for each young patient individually. The most favorable age for treatment is considered alalia 4 years, during this period the child shows most interest in the world around them.
Common treatment methods include:
- Conducting medical logopedicheskikh face massages. This method of treatment promotes relaxation and toning the facial muscles, which can reduce the manifestation of certain symptoms;
- Speech therapy training courses, which is often combined with taking drugs. Sessions with the doctor will be effective in all forms of the disease. The treatment regimen is compiled for each child separately - is taken into account the overall health, age and degree of the disorder. The task of a speech therapist to develop speech and language skills, learn to properly pronounce words and phrases to build and increase vocabulary. Admission medicaments aimed improving brain power (full supply it with vitamins and nutrients);
- Physical therapy, which aims to - work on some areas of the brain by electrical impulses. This method of treatment can not be held harm and totally painless, so it can be carried babies aged less than one year.
If we make a timely manner, and, most importantly, well-chosen treatment, the child will get rid of all the symptoms of the disease or to learn to control them. But most importantly - can be taught in a secondary school and adapt to society.
Not the least role in the treatment plays a support for parents, since the child is important to know that his success in treatment do not remain unnoticed by the closest people, it will give additional impetus to a speedy recovery, better still contributes treatment.
correction alalia
Correction alalia conducted simultaneously with drug therapy, which aims to stimulate maturation brain structures, as well as physiotherapy (magnetotherapy, laser therapy, hydrotherapy, electrophoresis, electroacupuncture). When alalia very important to work on the development of motor skills - Manual and general and mental functions (attention, memory, thinking).
Given the fact that the violation is systemic, for alalia correction sessions include work on all sides of the speech. In particular, when the motor alalia children stimulate speech activity, are working on the sound pronunciation, vocabulary formation and the development of coherent speech, grammatical registration statements. In speech therapy classes at alalia necessarily include logopaedic massage and logoritmiku.
When you touch alalia sets objectives to master the distinction between non-speech and speech sounds, the differentiation of words, relating them to specific objects and actions, understanding phrases and verbal instructions, grammatical system speech. With the accumulation of vocabulary, forming thin acoustic differentiation and phonemic perception becomes possible to develop the child's own speech.
In various forms alalia recommended a relatively early literacy of children because reading and writing to better consolidate learning, as well as to control speech.
Classes in Hospital
Alalia can cure in specialized clinics. This method is one of the most effective, as children are engaged in a specially developed technique:
- development of cognitive function;
- formation of a morphological analysis and sound;
- restoration of the semantic aspect of speech and so on.
In these clinics, you can get advice, a speech therapist doctor, neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, a psychiatrist. They will be able to give advice on treatment, nutrition and child's diet at the time of the disease. In this case, the food must be fractional and correct; the child to eat more fruits and vegetables as well as lean meats: chicken, turkey, rabbit, beef.
Forecast
In most cases, correctional work with sick children alalia brings excellent results: speech and its perception are gradually recovering, intellectual lag ceases to be noticeable. However, to predict a successful treatment can only correlating:
- the severity of the pathology;
- speech conditions;
- how early the disease was diagnosed;
Children with sensory alalia cured faster than a motor.
prevention
In order for your child to be healthy, prevention should begin before birth. Expectant mother must be very careful and follow all the recommendations of doctors to avoid serious injury during pregnancy and childbirth.
Should adhere to these tips:
- drink medicines and vitamins, which appointed the attending physician;
- often visit the gynecologist during pregnancy;
- to be attentive to their own health and the health of the baby;
- if the delivery deadline has passed, then in any case it is not necessary to delay stimulation.
But that's not all, because after the birth of the child is necessary to create favorable conditions for its development. Follow these simple rules and your baby will not fall behind in the development of other children, and you will have no cause for distress.
