METHOD FOR RECOVERING AND DEVELOPING HUMAN SPEECH FUNCTIONS Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61M21/00 A61H31/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to neurology and speech therapy, and may be used for the rehabilitation of patients with speech disturbance, as well as for the development of speech forms and functions of a healthy human speech. The speech disturbances are assessed for a degree of deviation from an age norm using 7-rate scale of speech maturity and/or complicating a human response to the environmental factors. The 3-point degree of speech deviations requires giving lessons including massage of chest, throat, hands, facial and articulatory muscles, and using a moderate and noxious stimulus on an upper and lower respiratory system to elicit audible responses and vocalisms. The 4-point degree provides giving lessons including massage of chest, massage of throat, massage of hands, massage of facial and articulatory muscles with passive articulation exercises accompanied by elements of maximum tension and limited chest excursion. The 5-point degree giving lessons including the passive articulation exercises with elements of maximum tension with the active articulation exercises with the facial exercises, and the exposure to various analysers and limited chest excursion. The 6-point degree ensures giving lessons that include the active articulation exercises with the facial exercises, as well as name-calling with set expressions and singing. The 7-point degree is giving lessons, including mechanical noise, any physical exercises that can be performed by a patient in the dynamic or static mode, as well as external mechanical disturbances: kicks, vibration, percussions, tickling. The 8-point degree is giving lessons that include singing in various octaves, pantomime, using the rhetorical exercises and involving acoustic noise. The 9-point degree is giving lessons that include optical interference: various eye movements during a conversation in the static and dynamic mode, viewing the various images - magazines, illustrations. The 10-point degree provides the exercises involving vestibular load, or mixed load: use a combination of different 2-3 interference. using combinations of 2-3 various interferences.

EFFECT: method enables improving the effectiveness of the solution of speech, psychological and social problems of a patient or a healthy person while recovering and developing the speech functions.