Stutter Therapy
Fluency in our daily speech is very important for common efficient communications.
On average 800.000 people in Germany have problems to speak fluent. This number contains 130.000 children and adolensces. For children to speak non-fluent is a natural fase between 2 en 4 years. Reactions from peers and care talking persons like parents, family and kindergartennannies can initiate stutter awareness and condional patterns.
For grown up teens can stuttering means a stressfull moment in daily live, which can lead in worst case to avoiding communication or mobbing in school. Often therapy is to be followed, sometimes over years. When these speech problems do not ameliorate in daily live, secundary stuttering, for instance evading eye contact and development of tics can play a leading role.
Targets in the therapy
achieving tools and experiences which helps to gain fluency and to devellop more basic trust in speaking without anxiety.
Methods: we use different techniques which have to build up a natural speech and who will reinforce our self confidence managing daily speech challanges.
We in our team for example practice "de Doetichemse Methode" n. Theo Schoenaker, Ch. von Riper (Midvas). E-Bloodstein, Fernau-Horn and Cooper & Cooper. Keytarget: to create a tailored plan which amplifies creativity and motivation toward practice, exercising and home. Link: concept and goals in the stuttery treatment.
Quentions: How effective is your stutter therapy? Therapy is a competitive proces between therapist, patient en our daily environment, f.e. school, work, sport clubs. The success depends from different elements of speech and communication. Grafik onto therapy success in Germany, with the Bonner Stutter Method.
Voice Therapy
Our voice is a sensitive and precise instrument. It is used by our family, friends and colleges for communication and singing, to articulate daily wishes, information and thoughts. Voice and sing training helps do develop the level of speech. Often forgotten, defined by nature: the primary function of our larynx and vocal folds is to project the lungs against aspiration.
In our evolution as human beings: intelligible speech developed in the last 100.000 years, relatively late compared to other human skills. Human speech into a babies life grows, compared with our human growing in a speed which can be seen as a rocket towards a bicycle, but also is being empowered by natural learning skills like shaping, learning by doing and trail and error.
In the first six years volume, pitch, pace, emotions, lautness are being shaped.
To posess a good, clear vocal tone means a lot to children, adolencess and adults. It means a certain free power to express yourself and finding your place in the world. Like being your own captain, who controls his own ship, and set course into a crowded hafen or to decide to sail at the wide open sea. The voice principles are comparing with sailing: we have to cope with principals of the elements of nature, of the sea, human communication, our surroundings and the state of our own ship.
Voice problems can have several causes: physical, functional, neurological and psychological. These influences can disbalance our vocal system. Hoarseness, vocal fold or vocal fry problems can manifest. When after a short pause recovery not appears the work of a ENT-doctor and speech therapist commence in helping finding the cause and a cure to restore a good voice.
After a carefull examination of the ENT doctor the work of the speech therapist begins, after the receipy is printed. The speech therapist makes his/her own examination like an voice graphic, describing the voice, pitch, pace, speech, articulation and body tension. After the investigation, targets are being deduced and discussed, and we can start the therapy. Each session contains exercises, training of hearing skills, getting insight of the causes and practise neu skills. A voice therapy contains mostly 10 or 20 sessions of 45 minutes and daily practice (10 minutes a day).
