The use of speech therapy massage

Many modern parents are faced with speech development disorders in children. Speech therapy massage for a child activates the articulatory muscles, increases the power of the voice, improves speech breathing, and forms the correct bite. It has a complex effect on muscles, nerve endings, blood vessels and tissues of the speech apparatus.

Speech therapists often use articulation massage for hypotonicity or hypertonicity, which has a beneficial effect on the development of speech, eliminating shortcomings in sound pronunciation.

Possible contraindications for the following diseases:

• viral colds;
• eye infections (conjunctivitis);
• skin diseases;
• stomatitis, gingivitis, etc.

Specialist massage, as well as speech therapy massage for children at home, must comply with hygienic requirements.

Before carrying out the procedure, you need to ventilate the room. In the room it is necessary to create conditions comfortable for the child.

The duration depends on the individual characteristics of the child's health.. It is recommended to start from 1-2 minutes, by the end of the course the maximum duration of one session can be 15-25 minutes.

Scheme of session duration by age:

• 0-3 years - 10 minutes;
• 4-7 years - 15 minutes;
• 7-10 years - 25 minutes.

The course usually consists of 10-30 daily sessions, which can be repeated after 1.5-2 months.

For the procedure, it is important to place the child in a comfortable position. This is either a lying position with a cushion under the head or a semi-sitting position - in a reclining chair.

The main types of logo massage

There are the following types of speech therapy massage:

• Manual, called classic, is performed next to the problem area or right on it with the help of stroking, kneading, rubbing and vibration. When conducting manual massage, a speech therapist uses a spatula, a pacifier, a toothbrush.
• Acupressure is an impact on active points associated with problem areas for speech.
• Hardware massage involves the use of special vibration devices.
• Probe massage was introduced by the famous speech therapist E.V. Novikova, who developed special probes.
• Self-massage assumes that the child performs the procedure on his own.

Method E.V. Novikova

With dysarthria, a speech therapist usually prescribes a probe speech therapy massage. A set of probes developed by E.V. Novikov, these are eight devices in the form of forks, hatchets, etc.

Speech therapy massage for children at home involves the use of probes if the parents have received special training. If you have doubts or questions after learning speech therapy massage, it is strongly recommended that you clarify them with speech therapists, rather than trying to experiment on your child

It is important to remember that the probe massage of the tongue is carried out only by an experienced specialist who has undergone professional training!

Probe speech therapy massage allows you to correct speech and achieve the following results:

• normalization of speech breathing,
• sound correction,
• increase in voice power
• improvement of the state of the nervous system.

The sequence of exposure to problem areas with probes is determined by a specialist. The child should not experience pain. Probe procedures are contraindicated in children under 6 months of age.

Probe massage of the tongue is carried out using the following techniques:

1. The thymus probe is used when chipping the tongue, which leads to a rhythmic contraction of the muscle fibers. After that, oscillatory and rotational movements are started with a probe installed at a certain point of the tongue for 5 seconds.
2. Probe-eight produce pressure on the tongue.
3. Sledge probes (3 different types of devices) allow you to press on the tongue, stimulating the muscle fibers.
4. A hatchet probe performs pressing and sliding movements.
5. The probe-cross by pressing on the tongue and pushing back promotes muscle contraction.
6. The pusher probe allows you to press on the tongue for 5 seconds, then relaxation is carried out.

Probe speech therapy massage is used in a course for 2-3 weeks. Each exercise is performed 30 times. Sometimes one course of treatment is enough for children. Logomassage can be repeated after 1.5-2 months.

Logo massage at home

Facial massage for children for the development of speech is also carried out at home. Parents should definitely consult with a specialist on how to do speech therapy massage, paying special attention to possible contraindications.

Speech therapy massage for children at home involves facial massage (with fingers and teaspoons) and tongue, including relaxing, gymnastics for the articulatory and respiratory apparatus

Speech therapy facial massage is based on rubbing, stroking, kneading. It must be taken into account that the child should be comfortable.

Facial massage for children for the development of speech is carried out in stages:

1. Forehead. First, strokes are used from the middle of the forehead to the temples, then from the eyebrows to the hair. After stroking, lightly knead the forehead.
2. Cheeks. Kneading movements are performed, stretching from the corners of the mouth to the temples along the cheeks, from the cheekbones to the lower jaw.
3. Nose. The wings of the nose are stroked, gently stretched, after which strokes are applied from the nose to the corners of the mouth.
4. Mouth. The upper, lower lip are alternately stroked, stretched towards the corners of the mouth.
5. Chin. Stroking, kneading is performed from the middle of the mouth to the corners.
6. Neck. Stroking, kneading movements are performed in the neck area.

Speech therapy facial massage can be performed using teaspoons.

Speech therapy massage with spoons is one of the modern effective methods for the development of children's speech.. It is important to use smooth spoons to avoid hurting the baby's face.

Speech therapy massage with spoons is performed using the following techniques:

1. Stroking the child's temples with spoons.
2. Stroking the eye sockets.
3. Cheek stroking.
4. Rubbing the temples with slides of spoons.
5. Rubbing the area between the eyebrows with slides of spoons.
6. Rubbing the nasolabial area with the end of a spoon.
7. Stroking the upper and lower lips with a slight pressure.
8. Kneading the chin and cheekbones.

For the convenience of the procedure, you need to prepare 4 teaspoons in advance.

Tongue massage for speech correction

Speech therapy massage of the tongue for children is prescribed for dysarthria, characterized by the presence of a short hyoid frenulum.

Before you start massaging the child's tongue, you need to do relaxing exercises:

1. The tongue is turned either to the right or to the left, slightly pulling it up, taking it with your fingers: the thumb lies on top, the middle and forefinger - from below.
2. The tongue is slowly twisted forward on the index finger.

An effective speech therapy massage of the tongue with dysarthria is impossible without relaxation of the neck muscles, collar zone and jaw, because. they directly affect the functioning of the speech apparatus.

The procedure is performed in the direction from the root to the tip of the tongue with the help of fingers, a plastic or wooden spatula or a soft toothbrush.

Speech therapy massage of the tongue for dysarthria is performed in a strict sequence:

1. With a spatula or index finger, the longitudinal lingual muscles are stroked 9-10 times.
2. The spatula is rhythmically pressed along the entire length 5-6 times.
3. With the index finger or toothbrush, transverse strokes are carried out 5-6 times.
4. The lateral muscles of the tongue are stroked with the thumb and forefinger.
5. Fingers knead the entire area of ​​​​the tongue for 7-9 seconds.
6. Finger movements are performed in the form of rubbing.
7. Fingers gently shake the tip of the tongue, after which light and vigorous pressure is applied with a spatula.
8. Fingers perform light compression of the lateral muscles of the tongue, holding for 1-2 seconds.
9. Fingers perform light pinching of the tongue, then pat with a spatula for 10 seconds.

Speech therapy massage for dysarthria at home must comply with hygiene requirements. Rooms should be ventilated and warm.

Effective speech therapy massage for children at home is strict adherence to the requirements of a specialist. The procedure is recommended to be repeated 2 to 3 times a day in combination. You can’t skip sessions, because. only painstaking regular work can lead to positive changes in the speech development of the child.

Relaxation of speech muscles

Relaxing speech therapy massage is used for spasmodic speech muscles (musculature of the face, lips and tongue). Increased muscle tone is removed with the help of gentle strokes and light pressure.

The procedure begins with relaxation of the neck muscles, for which smooth rotational movements of the head are carried out. Next, stroking movements are carried out for the facial muscles, then for the labial muscles. The session ends with light rotational and tapping movements of the fingers on the lips.

Relaxation of the facial and neck muscles helps to reduce hypertonicity, improve the child's speech activity.

Speech therapy massage for children at home is effective along with articulatory gymnastics.

Articulation gymnastics is performed in front of a mirror. As a rule, the child repeats the movements of a speech therapist or a parent if speech therapy massage is used for dysarthria at home.

Gymnastics for the child's articulatory apparatus includes the following exercises for the tongue and lips:

• shows the tongue, stretching it out as much as possible,
• pulls gently to the chin and nose,
• shakes to relax muscles,
• takes aside,
• collects lips with a tube,
• stretches, fixing fingers in the corners of the mouth,
• raises the upper lip
• lowers lower lip
• squeezes,
• licks.

Speech therapy massage for children at home also includes gymnastics to develop the child's proper breathing.

In speech therapy, there are many exercises aimed at shaping the correct breathing of a child in a playful way:

• « Get the ball into the goal". Smiling, blow so that the stream of air goes in the middle of the tongue lying on the lower lip. It is necessary to blow off the cotton wool on the edge of the table.
• « blow off the snowflake". Put a small paper snowflake on the tip of your tongue and try to blow it off. The mouth should be ajar, the tongue sticking out.
• « Bubble". You need to inflate a big soap bubble. Or arrange a competition among children who will inflate the most soap balloons.
• « Inflate a toy". You can arrange a competition for children: who will inflate the toy the fastest.

For a child with speech problems, especially stuttering, it is useful to buy toy wind instruments to correct breathing.

Work on correcting a child's speech is necessarily accompanied by learning tongue twisters. Constant learning of tongue twisters will allow you to cope with complex words, the pronunciation of which causes difficulty. These can be difficult to pronounce sonorous sounds “P”, “L”, hissing “Sh”, “Sh”, etc. In addition, the child masters the tempo-rhythm of speech, because. he not only needs to correctly pronounce the "insidious" sounds, but also to do it as quickly as possible.

Thus, speech therapy massage for children at home includes probe and relaxing massage of the face (using fingers and spoons) and tongue, as well as gymnastics for the articulatory and respiratory apparatus. To carry out the procedure with probes at home, parents must undergo special training. Experts recommend using several types of influence on the articulatory apparatus for effective speech correction in children.