Speech Therapy Massage in the Correction of Dysarthric Speech Disorders in Early and Preschool Age Children

Differentiated speech therapy massage is part of a comprehensive medical, psychological, and pedagogical approach aimed at correcting various speech disorders. Massage is used in speech therapy work with children with dysarthria, rhinolalia, stuttering, and voice disorders. In these forms of speech pathology (especially in dysarthria), massage is a necessary condition for the effectiveness of speech therapy intervention. Speech therapy massage is one of the speech therapy technologies, an active method of mechanical influence. Massage is applied in cases where there are disturbances in the tone of the articulatory muscles. By changing the state of the peripheral speech apparatus muscles, massage ultimately indirectly contributes to improving the articulatory aspect of speech.
Massage can be performed at all stages of corrective-speech therapy intervention, but its use is especially important at the initial stages of work, when the child does not yet have the ability to perform certain articulatory movements.
Differentiated speech therapy massage can be performed by a speech therapist, defectologist, or physical therapy instructor who has undergone special training.