Explore your Voice
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Limited Oral Expression
有限表達
Preverbal children fail to use verbal means for communication. Even when they show sufficient communication intention and understand our language, they are still unable to imitate words due to a lack of control in breathing, phonatory and oral motor muscles.
語言前的幼兒未能透過口語表達自己所想。很多時，他們已有充足的溝通動機及能理解成人所說，惟由於缺乏控制呼吸、發聲及口部肌肉的能力，而導致仍未能模仿說出字詞。
Common Causes
常見成因
Autism Spectrum Disorder
自閉症譜系
ADHD
過度活躍/專注力不足
Gross/fine motor delay
大小肌肉發展遲緩
Oral Motor Delay
口部肌肉發展遲緩
Pediatric Feeding Disorder
小兒餵食障礙
Social Impairment
社交障礙
Emotion Regulation Issues
情緒調控問題
Sensory Integration Issues
感覺統合問題
Down's Syndrome
唐氏綜合症
Cerebral Palsy
腦性麻痺
Prematurity
早產
Hearing impairment
聽力障礙
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Our Specialized Vocalization Program
Speech Therapy - Targeted to improve: limited/no vocalization, difficulty in imitation of sounds,
difficulty to coordinate gestures and sounds
言語治療針對改善：有限/未有發聲、模仿聲音及字詞困難、難以協調手勢及聲音
RESPIRATORY MUSCLES ACTIVATION
激活呼吸肌肉
We constantly breathe for gas exchange every moment but breathing takes a special role in phonation. We inhale and exhale by contracting and relaxing respiratory muscles including diaphragm, rib cage and abdominal muscles. Being aware of the breath and coordinating with other muscles during EXHALATION make phonation happen. We can also control volume and length of sentence by controlling our respiratory muscles.
我們每時每刻均在呼吸以維持生命，同時地呼吸在發聲中的角色亦不可或缺。我們通過收縮和放鬆呼吸肌肉來吸氣和呼氣，當中包括：橫膈膜、胸腔及腹肌。若在呼氣的過程中能同時協調其他肌肉群，屬於你的聲音便會隨之產生。我們還可以通過控制呼吸肌肉群來控制聲量及句子的長度。
LARYNGEAL MUSCLES ACTIVATION
激活喉部肌肉
Phonation is accomplished by vocal folds vibration during exhalation. When air moves from lungs, the vibration occurs when there is change in vocal fold tension resulting from laryngeal muscles activation. By controlling the laryngeal muscles properly, we produce phonation in different types e.g. voiced/ voiceless, aspirated/ non-aspirated sounds and sounds in different tones.
發聲是通過呼氣時聲帶震動而完成的。當空氣從肺部呼出，而同時地喉部肌肉改變聲帶的張力，聲帶震動便隨之形成。通過正確控制喉部肌肉，我們可以產生不同的發聲方式，例如：濁音/清音、送氣/非送氣音及不同音調的聲音。
OROFACIAL MUSCLES ACTIVATION
激活口部肌肉
We move our jaw, lips and tongue to modify our oral cavity so that individual sounds can be produced in the correct place and manner of articulation. Orofacial muscle weakness greatly hinders the fine motor movement necessary for speech.
A very common phenomenon demonstrating the impact of our orofacial muscles on articulation is that when we experience toothache or suffer from wisdom teeth swelling, clarity of speech will be greatly hindered. Children with difficulty to control their orofacial muscles experience similar condition so they have to learn to move the muscles in coordination while remain dynamically stable.
說話時，我們會移動下顎、嘴唇及舌頭來改變我們的口腔，以便在正確的位置及運用合適的發音方式來構音。若口部肌肉出現無力或移動受阻時，構音時所需要的精細控制將出現問題。例如：當我們感到牙痛或智慧齒腫痛時，說話的清晰度將明顯降低。同樣的情況出現在面對口部肌肉障礙的幼童，他們必須學懂在保持身體穩定的同時協調移動口部肌肉，才能確保說話清楚，甚或是發出聲音。
MUSCLE COORDINATION
肌肉協調
Productive speech is the beautiful result involving the coordination of all the above-mentioned muscle system. Our program targets children who may have sufficient communication intention but fail to coordinate these muscle systems. This group of people can only use very limited sounds and show great difficulty to imitate from what they heard,
thereby inducing problems in social relationship.
透過協調以上肌肉系統，人便能發聲，並運用詞句來表達自己。我們的治療計劃針對有足夠的溝通意慾但未能協調這些肌肉系統的幼童及成人。若他們只能發出有限的聲音及未能模仿說出或回應他們聽到的聲音，繼而影響他們的社交活動。