Speech therapist-defectologist – Hippotherapy for children, therapy and treatment with horses, Kiev | SPIRIT

Speech therapist-defectologist

Speech Therapist

The system of sessions we use is aimed at the formation and correction of all aspects of speech: phonetic, lexical, grammatical, and pragmatic.

During sessions with a speech therapist, cognitive processes such as memory, thinking, attention, various types of perception, visual, auditory, motor functions, and multi-sensory connections are developed. The child’s cognitive and creative activity as well as speech skills are also emphasised.

Emphasis is placed on expanding the children’s knowledge, refining their understanding of objects, phenomena, nature, and social reality. The sessions also address the tasks of speech development, primarily vocabulary enrichment and clarifying word meanings. Games and exercises aimed at developing cognitive and creative processes are included in the structure of the sessions.

The specialists at the "Spirit" rehabilitation center work with the following disorders:

  • Disorders of General Speech Development (Level I, II, III).
  • Phonetic-Phonemic Speech Disorders.
  • Delayed Speech Development.
  • Dysgraphia (writing disorder).
  • Dyslexia (reading disorder).
  • Dyslalia (articulation disorder).
  • Alalia (speech absence).
  • Dysarthria (speech disorder related to CNS damage).
  • Rhinolalia (speech disorder related to cleft palate).
  • Aphasia (breakdown of already developed speech).
  • Stuttering.