El próximo 6 de marzo se celebrará el Día Europeo de la Logopedia. Fue creado por el comité permanente de logopedas de la Unión Europea en 2004. La creación de la celebración tiene como objetivo fomentar la conciencia de la profesión en europa. El principal objetivo es la información, la visibilidad y la ayuda. Brindar información sobre los diversos trastornos del habla, lenguaje y comunicación. La información es para los pacientes, dando a conocer la información sobre los trastornos del lenguaje y las posibilidades existentes de tratamiento.
Este día fue creado con el fin de informar y sensibilizar a las instituciones políticas y a la sociedad de la importancia que tienen los logopedas como especialista para el bienestar de muchas personas en todo el mundo y el alcance que pueden tener a la hora de ayudar a las personas que sufren problemas del lenguaje.
- What is Speech Therapy?
Speech therapy is a discipline that treats problems present in the fields of speech, language, voice and communication from the cognitive, physical and physiological fields.
The speech therapist is a professional who works with people of any age with people who have different disorders in human communication. The field of action of the speech therapist includes early care, health centers, educational centers, etc. The work is basically to diagnose, prevent and treat language disorders, both in children and adults. Being a science that studies language and hearing disorders. Although they focus mainly on children and their work with them, it is very helpful.
-Problems that speech therapists treat:
Some of the cases that we can find on a daily basis in the practice of a speech therapist are:
– Speech, articulation, and pronunciation disorders: dyslalias, dysarthrias, dysglosias, verbal fluency disorders. For example: (Dysphemia or stuttering, dysprosody, bradilalia, taquilalia). Speech delays.
– Oral language disorders: delays in language development, specific language disorder, aphasia (stroke or cerebrovascular accident), language disorders associated with other disorders such as Down syndrome, autism or cerebral palsy.
– Written language disorders: Dyslexia, dysgraphia, dysorthography, reading and/or writing delay.
– Voice disorders: Aphonias, dysphonias (nodules, polyps, Reinke's edema in children and adults; laryngectomized patients.
– Hearing disorders : Cochlear implants, hearing loss, deafness.
– Communication disorders: Augmentative/alternative communication systems.
– Myofunctional disorders: Hypotonia or hypertonia of the facial muscles, tongue protrusion, velopalatine incompetence, mouth breathing, atypical swallowing, dysphagia.
The celebration manages to increase people's awareness of language problems . As well as a wide variety of communication disorders and the role that therapists play in it. A celebration of this magnitude allows us to show the general public that speech therapists and therapists have a common goal and that they are working and giving their best to achieve it. Together they work to achieve a greater and more dynamic impact in promoting the health and well-being of children and adults with communication problems throughout the European Union.
