Here are 3 of the most exciting innovations in speech therapy:
1. Comprehensive care schemes (whole-person care)
When a child is taken to the doctor or therapist, his or her needs are not just of one kind - i.e. they are not only physical, but also emotional, social, behavioral, etc. Collaborative technology and modernized health information flow, compliant with HIPPA and GDPR standards, help the speech-language pathologist to integrate information from multiple sources about the child's health status.All this data can help to design a more effective speech-language intervention plan.
2. Teletherapy
Online therapy developed strongly in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, largely out of sheer necessity - speech therapists and parents suddenly found themselves unable to continue speech therapy for their young ones.
Fortunately, teletherapy has the backing of peer-reviewed studies showing that it works and that speech therapists can deliver online services to the same quality standards as face-to-face, physical therapy. What's more, teletherapy offers some hard-to-ignore advantages for both psychotherapists and families in need of a speech therapist:
* Parents can get more involved in their child's recovery
* Logo-workers have more control over their work and can flex their schedule
* Geographical barriers are disappearing and children can work with speech therapists from anywhere in the world
* Speech and language therapists are no longer constrained by the limitations of the physical office and parents no longer waste time with transportation to the speech therapist's office
* Increased accessibility - when you have more freedom of choice, speech and language therapy becomes accessible to more families with different financial possibilities
3. Evolution of learning habits
Unlike their parents, today's children are "digital natives", meaning that they are used to technology and the online world from an early age. Being brought up in a technology-rich environment, children learn to use phones, tablets and mobile apps very quickly, usually intuitively even when faced with something new. An important positive effect of this immersion of children in the digital space is that they can now benefit from advanced therapy tools adapted to the new ways in which young children process information.
Speech therapy apps can help children develop their attention, memory, thinking, engagement and learning productivity. VoxiKids, a mobile app, has dozens of specialized speech therapy exercises presented to children in the form of an engaging game. In exchange, during online therapy sessions, children can access the varied exercises offered by the VOXi Platform with a speech therapist. You also have other useful digital tools such as digital sound assessment, sound training module, scheduling calendar and educational videos that can help them learn how to pronounce different words, songs, dances, stories and more.
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