Many children, due to lack of early intervention, suffer from development gaps and acquire communication disorders such as apraxia, speech defects and delayed speech development.
One quick diagnostic test is the inability of the child to blow into organ pipes to produce sound; blow to move light objects; blow-off candle flame and produce bubbles.
If a child is unable to blow the candle on his or her first birthday, early intervention should be sought from a therapist . This is also a defect in breathing and has a connection with delayed speech development when left unattended.
According to therapists and audiologists, it is the skill of blowing and exhaling that produces speech sounds. It is recommended that therapeutic use of blow toys; designed inhaling and exhalation exercises, chest exercises and lung exercises right from the age of one year can ward off communication disorder in later years.
The child in the picture and micro-video shows that along with forced breathing exercises (such as closing nasals and opening them incrementally) was able to mitigate his problems by therapeutic intervention to enhance his breath support to speech.
After, one-hour intervention with breathing exercises and attempts to produce sound from straw saxophone lead to acquiring reasonable blowing by this dysgraphic child with mild speech defects.
The straw saxophone is an inexpensive blow toy which can improves both inhalation and exhalation, by urging the child to draw more air into lungs and smoothen the out flow of air from the mouth wherein the speech organs are located.
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