This is a modern and very specialized branch of therapy offered at UDICHI by professional person specially trained in “Speech & Language therapy” to patients with difficulty in Verbal Communication.

There are wide varieties of patients in this group including children born with Congenital Deafness, delayed developmental milestones (Autism, ADHD etc.), Stammering, Stuttering and also adult speech impairments caused by Stroke, Brain Injuries and other conditions.

Natural Speech Development in a child starts from an average age of six months (babbling etc.) onwards and by the age of two to three years a child can normally speak in his own language that he is listening to. The entire procedure principally depends on hearing acuity from birth and the optimum learning phase of speech is between three to five years. If a baby doesn’t develop normal speech by the age of seven, it is very difficult (if not impossible) for the baby to speak normally ever in future (because of permanent loss of Auditory and Neural plasticity in the brain).

So it is not only of utmost importance but essential to identify any possible deafness at birth or immediately after, as a cause of non-development or delayed development of speech and start necessary treatment at earliest in the form of assisted hearing (hearing aid etc.) and intensive speech therapy to prevent from being Deaf and Dumb in future.