Department of Speech & Language therapy forms a vital link to most of the specialty depts. Including ENT, General Surgery, and the like. A speech and language therapist is a professional qualified to deal with speech and Language problems in all age groups. Vydehi Superspeciality Hospital has the best speech therapists in Bangalore in this specialty. The components of speech include voice, articulation, and fluency, while language includes comprehension and expression. At VSH, we don’t only provide the best child speech therapy but also the best speech therapy for adults in Bangalore.

Voice includes pitch, loudness, and quality. Pitch as in high/low pitch, intensity as in loud/ soft, and quality as in breathy, hoarse, rough, etc. The most common voice problems are men with high pitch (feminine voice) or vice versa, hoarse voice, husky voice, soft voice, voicelessness because of vocal cord problems, or post-operatively as in the removal of voice box due to cancer, excessively nasal voice.

Articulation problems include difficulty in pronunciation of certain speech sounds (r/s), the substitution of speech sounds (k/th, s/th, r/l, etc.), and inability to pronounce sounds due to cleft lip/palate or due to glossectomy.

Fluency problems include stammering and a fast rate of speech.

Language problems include delayed speech and language in children due to various problems such as hearing loss, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, and inadequate stimulation. Speech and language problems can also accompany paralysis of facial muscles and hemiparesis. It could be only in expression or both comprehension and expression.

Speech therapy involves the evaluation of the problem in detail, the prescription of various exercises suitable for the particular problem, counseling, and therapy, which are the essential services provided by the best speech therapy centers in Bangalore at VSH.