Speech Therapy

Agnieszka Prus, MA – specialist speech therapist with long-standing clinical experience gained at the University Children’s Hospital in Białystok. She works with a wide range of speech and communication disorders and has also gained experience in kindergartens and outpatient clinics. Being a speech therapist is her passion.

The speech therapist within Interhem specialist clinics provides:

1. Speech prophylaxis:

   • early support for speech development, including children with hearing loss
   • stimulation of prelinguistic functions and auditory training
   • feeding intervention for infants and toddlers (reduced sucking reflex, biting/chewing/swallowing difficulties)

2. Diagnosis and therapy of communication disorders in children with:

   • delayed expressive and receptive speech
   • mutism, logophobia
   • intellectual disability, Down syndrome (oligophasia)
   • Asperger’s syndrome, autistic traits, autism
   • disharmonious psychomotor development

3. Diagnosis and therapy of speech sound disorders:

   • dyslalia (lambdacism, kappacism, gammacism, sigmatism, rotacism)
   • audiogenic dyslalia (speech disorders due to hearing impairment)
   • palatolalia (in children with cleft palate)
   • fluency disorders including stuttering

4. Improving the articulation, respiratory and phonation apparatus in patients with:

   • articulation disorders of anatomical origin (e.g. short lingual frenulum)
   • vocal nodules / voice emission disorders
   • insufficient function of the soft palate (Eustachian tube obstruction, middle-ear effusions)

5. Speech rehabilitation for people with:

   • dysarthria
   • aphasia