Orofacial Speech Therapy

Abstract

The author presents the motivation that prompted her to propose the name – orofacial speech therapy – for a certain group of speech defects connected with imperfect structure and/or function of the peripheral speech organs. In the following article the subject of orofacial speech therapy is
described and the most relevant problems connected with the research in this segment of speech therapy are indicated. One also reminds of various criteria of distinguishing other segments related to speech therapy, which becomes the background for the undertaken issues. She also points to the advantages coming from the fact that we give names to the characteristic symptoms and causes of defects within anatomical anomalies and disfunctions of the primary activities as well as parafunctions within orofacial space. This aspect refers to insufficient education for speech therapists within dislalia – which can be observed at some universities in Poland.