This section focuses on speech therapists, phoniatrics and hearing and language teachers. You will find educational materials and games to use in your sessions or classes. With them you will be able to work the correct positioning of lips, tongue, jaw and palate; train coordination and strength of orofacial musculature; practice the correct articulation of different phonemes, exercise breathing and breath.
Also, the games and materials we have selected will also allow you to work on reading initiation, letter recognition, word association with images, vocabulary acquisition and language development, in a playful and entertaining way for children.
They are specialists who deal with the problems inherent in speech and language disorders. These are terms that are often used as synonyms, but in reality they allude to different specialties.
It's a medical specialty. The speech therapist decides the rehabilitation or re-education strategy of the patient from a psychological and neurological point of view. Its approach is multidisciplinary and encompasses medication, education, food, lifestyle and linguistics. Its field of action includes rehabilitation, among other pathologies of:
Speech therapy is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of communication disorders caused by pathologies affecting language, voice and speech. It also approaches treatment from a multidisciplinary perspective: health, education, welfare and social, among others. Its field of action includes, among others, the following pathologies:
In Akros you can find all the speech therapy material you need to learn by playing, and to teach others through games, entertaining and easy to learn.
Children need to be motivated to do an activity, because if they get bored they stop paying attention and don't learn what we want.
Doing these kinds of activities through games makes learning possibilities much easier, as they will pay attention to the explanations first, do the activities with enthusiasm and want to repeat them until they get better.
When a child has difficulty articulating words, is not able to speak fluently, is not clearly understood, etc., needs the help of a speech therapist because these difficulties cause him/her to be misunderstood when speaking.
In the same way that there are different speech disorders, there are also different types of activities, so that the speech therapist can work in a concrete way.
By detecting the illness that is suffered early, with early attention we will be able to work to solve it as soon as possible.
Speech therapy treats different pathologies so the materials for speech therapists are focused on treating each of these pathological problems
Language development is much slower than usual. The child finds it difficult to construct phrases and has problems with pronunciation in certain sounds.
For this language problem, speech and language games are used to form words that are represented in images or pictorial storyboards. This last resource is a very effective playful material to learn to form sentences through pictograms of story characters.
Children with this problem have impaired language development. They are more advanced in some areas than in others and have a very heterogeneous vocabulary, pronunciation problems, etc.
As with the above pathology, it is important for the child to work on word and phrase training with educational materials that focus on it. The self-dictation of nouns and verbs, as well as picto - dice for telling stories are essential speech therapy materials for this problem.
In addition, we always have at our disposal the children of the Association of Speech Therapists of Spain, capable of looking after the interests of all the speech therapists in the country, who actively participate in the creation of our toys.
These are the problems arising from written expression. Patients experience difficulties in segmentation of the word or phrase. They often do not understand what they read. In addition, they are unable to tell a story in written form.
Children's speech therapy materials are used for this problem. Among them are picto games, letter games and oral games such as self-dictated word and verb games. In addition, all those resources are used in which the drawing is associated with the letter or the drawing with the word (such as abc or forming words).
This language disorder is characterized by the fact that children who have it have communication difficulties through speech, writing, and mimicry. This is because they present injuries in the brain (strokes, strokes, strokes...)
The tray and the punch is a teaching material with many possibilities. In addition, all the puzzles that are useful for children with fine motor problems and problems with spatial and temporal organization.
The Logo Bit materials help educators to get the child to communicate by explaining what he or she sees and thus reinforcing his or her language competence.
Sensory games are indicated for people with sensory aphasia, touch-photo or smell will help the child develop his or her sensory capacity.
In order to work on this pathology it is also very useful to use the materials of speech therapy of photographs (photographs of food, photos of objects in the house, images of adjectives...). Using them, the speech therapist will be able to perform exercises in which the child can form simple sentences by joining words.
It consists of the inability to hear (total or partial) sounds in one or both ears. To get the youngest children to speak well, they must first recognize the language.
The Blow Job is the material that will most help you develop your hearing and speaking skills. Picto games are also essential as they encourage initial communication and facilitate the child's relationships.
Dyslalia is a vocal joint problem. They have problems pronouncing certain sounds. We work with games related to oral expression. Dysarthria occurs in people with cerebral palsy or brain damage. They have trouble articulating language because their organs are not functioning well. Diglossia is also a joint problem resulting from malformations of the respiratory organs.
For these three pathologies we work with the games of the Logo Bit Method. The Bit Logo of articulatory ability uses articulated phono training cards, an essential material for working on pronunciation problems. A very good speech therapy material is also the Blow Game. This is because they allow the intensity, power and directionality of the breath to be trained, thus developing a correct breathing pattern.
There are two types of dysphonia: organic and functional. It is produced by acoustic parameters such as tone, timbre and intensity. To work with this problem, the speech therapy material that is usually used is the Blow Game. It's perfect for enhancing your ability as well as for listening games such as dictation.
People with autism have a variety of language problems. Autistic children with language development problems. They tend to have a low level of expression, understanding and social interaction through language.
The speech therapy materials that can be used in autistic disorders are multiple. Picto dice and dice to create stories will help the child begin to express and understand.
The photographs of animals, actions, adjectives and nouns form a very broad resource for multiple exercises. The child will try to associate images with the photo and form understandable phrases by putting several images together. In addition, games related to the body and expressions and the Logo-bits of orofacial praxis are very useful. They improve the child's interaction with society.
Speech therapy comes from Greek and means education of the word, so the speech therapist must help this education through specific techniques and by helping himself with specific material.
We must not forget that speech therapy is not only dedicated to speech and language disorders, but also to problems such as dyslexia or other problems such as the assimilation of the most basic concepts of mathematics, or also problems with writing, for example, writing with defects that are not well understood or have a neurological or intellectual basis.
Language should make it easier for us to communicate with each other and not prevent it, and speech therapy should facilitate that communication.
The causes that can cause these difficulties can be many and varied, for example as a result of injuries such as cerebral palsy or tumours, but they can also be due to some social, environmental or psychological factors.
In any case, the speech therapist will work to solve the problem and facilitate communication with others. In the case of children, as we have already said, the best option for working in this area is through games.
Here's how some of these games work:
There are an infinite number of games for speech therapy, but it will be the job of the professional speech therapist to choose the type of activity he or she wishes to do with his or her students, thinking about which will be the best option to help them according to their needs.
