Speech and language therapist Miss. Jeevitha Sothylingam who is working at Nuffiel school (Rehabilitation Center) in Jaffna, successfully treated 11 children with disabilities.
The aforementioned regions were treated
- Articulation disorders
- Phonological disorders
- Swallowing disorders
- Under language skills comprehension and expression
- Behavior skills
- Pre-requisites skills
- Management and advice for children with hearing impairment
Instructions for Home based task:
- Tips for enhancing speech related issues
- How to manage the best possible swallowing (Oro motor exercises, food consistency modification advices, nutrition management, position managements were given under swallowing management)
- How to enhance the functional communication skills (AAC)
- How to improve comprehensive and expressive language skills
- How to make better use of the remaining skills
- How to lessen communication apprehension and avoidance
- How interaction and social communication can be improved
- To improve the environment for communication and raise others’ awareness of communication
- To provide more communication opportunities.
