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Pre-school child with unintelligible speech.

Chris was 3 years 2 months old when he started Sound Therapy. He had a severe speech disorder, which had been diagnosed as oral dyspraxia, making him unintelligible to all but his parents. His understanding of language was very good. He had received weekly speech and language therapy for some months prior to starting Johansen IAS and continued during the Jjohansen IAS programme. Following Johansen IAS his mother wrote the following:

"Now that Chris has finished his course of Sound Therapy I can report some very interesting changes both in his speech and general concentration skills.

At the outset of this treatment, Chris was a very boisterous child who, though perfectly able to undertake various tasks such as jigsaws, lacked the concentration to really sit and complete anything. Within a week of starting this therapy I noticed that Chris would sit for a long time colouring pictures and his ability to use pens with care seemed to come almost overnight. All the activities he had previously viewed negatively suddenly became his chosen occupation and within a very short time he could write his name, colour neatly and do jigsaws unaided, using a lot of concentration and time on these tasks.

Besides this change in Chris's general nature, he now seemed able to copy my corrections of his mispronunciations accurately and without the frustration previously displayed. Having already received speech therapy for 6 months at this point, it appears that Chris was suddenly armed with the necessary tools to unravel his problematic speech and within a very short time his general speaking abilities had improved tremendously.

We now find ourselves in a position, some 10 months after the diagnosis of a very severe phonological disorder, of some very positive results. Whilst Chris's speech is by no means perfect, the improvement is dramatic and sufficient to make him generally understood, and therefore add to his self-confidence.

In addition to this, Chris can now do 100 piece jigsaws unaided, write and recognise numerous words and is a generally calmer child with good concentration skills. It could be argued that the natural maturity of a child of this age would lead to these results, but I would say that the speed at which these changes occurred must largely be attributed to the sound therapy."

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