The Role of Orthophony towards Diagnosing and Treating Language Delay among Children The Case Study of Preparatory Phase from Two to Five Years Old at Speech Therapy Clinic in khenchela
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2023
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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This study was conducted to discover the role of Orthophony towards diagnosing and treating
language delay among children, it aims at finding out the role of the speed therapy in treating this
delay ,according to many preschools and Orthophony clinics, it has been adduced that children that
are incapable of talking or even pronouncing words by the age of two suffer from considerable
levels of language delay and difficulties in understanding language and expressing their thoughts
orally, which may be caused by many factors such as ,premature birth and decreased mental
abilities and other developmental disorders. The majority of these children are confronted with
those factors and many other factors, which makes the goal of speaking and communicating much
more difficult. In order to achieve the research objectives, the data analysis procedure was based
on the qualitative method, where observation and interview were chosen to be data gathering tools.
The methodological framework was started with the observation, where eight children out of
twenty were observed for one month straight during the work times of the clinic, analyzing the
levels and the reasons of language delay. The second stage of gathering data was the interview,
where the speech therapist, the responsible of the Orthophony clinic where we based our study on,
was interviewed. After perceiving and observing the children, it was noticed that language delay
seems to be spread among a large number of children, especially those who are aged between four
years and five years. The observation also revealed that most parents didn’t realize that their
children are suffering from language delay until four years old. The interview, which was also
conducted at the same clinic, showed that there are several ways that speech therapist follows to
know to which extent the little patients are delayed. The interview revealed as well that the
Orthophony is the most suitable solution for those who are diagnosed with language delay because
of its ways in analyzing and exploring the different factors of each patient and how to deal with
every case, whether it needs a medical treatment, a psychologist treatment or any other kind if
treatments.