Children's Speech Therapy has never been this much Fun!
This professional DVD is comprised of a variety of exercises specifically designed to improve tongue, lip, and oral facial muscle strength and coordination. Your hosts, Sammy Speakwell™ and Kelly Anne deliver established oral training techniques in this fun and motivating episode! It features playful sound effects, motivating music, and best of all, the cherished mascot of children’s speech therapy: Sammy Speakwell™!
Children may face an array of speech problems which include:
They are unable to transmit clear directions from their brain to their oral muscles on how to move. As a result, a child with this speech disorder will have difficulty carrying out voluntary oral muscle movement. When messages from the brain become interrupted the child gropes for the correct lip, tongue and jaw sequences necessary to produce clear speech. It is important to note that developmental apraxia does NOT involve muscle weakness. Our verbal apraxia page explains this speech disorder in more detail. Phonological Processes is the term used to describe developmental delays in speech production. All children go through a normal process of speech development in which they make appropriate mistakes. These mistakes are a natural way of learning and testing how speech sounds are produced. Through listening to adults speak and testing their own sound systems children learn how to produce intelligible speech. However, there is a time limit on acquiring sounds. This time limit is set by averaging the time it takes the majority of normally developing children to acquire speech sounds. For example, the /n/ and /m/ sounds are typically mastered by the majority of children between the ages of 2 and 3. If a child continues to make sound errors past the age at which those sounds are expected to be mastered, then they are said to have a phonological process. Phonological processes are considered conceptual in nature. These children have speech problems due to their inability to effectively learn and organize sound patterns. Articulation Disorders or Functional Speech Disorders are identified as difficulty producing a specific sound or group of specific sounds. The sounds typically involved in articulation disorders are /l/, /r/, /s/, /z/ Lisping is an example of an articulation disorder. Functional speech disorders such as lisping, involve difficulty with strength and coordination of the articulators. Dysarthria is a neuromuscular impairment. It is due to paralysis or weakness of the oral muscles. There are several
types of dysarthria.
Through speech therapy children's speech disorders can be treated and remediated with success. One of the methods used in children's speech therapy is known as; Oral Motor Therapy. Click here to switch from children speech therapy to our Oral Motor Therapy page. 
Oral Motor Exercises are a set of speech therapy exercises that focus on improving the strength and coordination of:
Through a series of specific exercises children are able to develop better oral motor skills which enhance their speech production.
This one-of-a-kind DVD includes: Sammy Speakwell™ and Kelly Anne interact with viewers as they explain and demonstrate 25 different oral exercises that children will easily follow along with. Each specialized exercise teaches children clinical therapeutic methods to improve their oral motor strength and coordination.
We guarantee your child will absolutely adore Sammy Speakwell™. You’ll be amazed at how closely your child follows the directions and practices every exercise. Don’t be surprised to catch your child practicing the exercises long after the DVD is over! Sammy Speakwell’s™ Oral Motor Exercise Video isn't just a program kids watch - it's a follow-along and play-along experience! Sammy’s exercises promote oral motor improvement through participation. Sammy Speakwell’s™ Oral Motor Exercises brings
Designed by a team of Speech-Language Pathologists, this video provides children the basic oral skills necessary to demonstrate better speech. Featuring a combination of live-action, puppetry and animation, this episode teaches children a series of fun exercises professionally used to improve oral motor strength and coordination. The Oral Motor Exercises Include:
If Sammy Speakwell’s™ Oral Motor Exercises DVD does not provide the professional therapy you expected, simply return it for a complete refund. It's that simple. You have nothing to lose and a tremendous amount to gain. Provide your child with the opportunity for greater improvement! Copyright © 2006 speech-therapy-on-video.com |