Phoniatrics and paediatric audiology continues to be an important point of contact for developmental abnormalities in the area of speech and language. The age range for speech examinations extends from around 2 years of age to adolescence. Diagnostics are carried out using common standardised test procedures and are supplemented by clinical observations and a detailed speech therapy or speech psychology anamnesis with the parents. In addition to discussing the findings and counselling parents, we may also initiate the necessary therapies and offer follow-up checks. We refer parents directly to local facilities, including speech therapists, occupational therapists, early counselling centres, socio-paediatric centres, psychologists and school psychological counselling centres.
Indications in the area of speech/language:
- Language development delay
- Expressive and receptive specific language development disorder (pronunciation disorder, vocabulary deficit, word-finding disorder, grammar problems, language comprehension disorder)
- Language development disorder with multilingualism
- Speech development disorder in the context of a hearing disorder
- Speech development disorder due to a mental development disorder
- Childhood apraxia of speech, verbal developmental dyspraxia
- Stuttering, poluttering
- Articulation disorder
- Myofunctional disorder
- Rhinophonia as part of a functional or organic cause, e.g. cleft lip and palate, cleft palate
- Selective mutism, autism
- Neurological speech and language disorders