About

Shishu Pragathi Child Development Centre

We work all developmental delay and disorder children with intensive and holistic approach focusing on cognitive behavioral therapy, gross and fine motor therapy, physical therapy, sensory integration/ occupational therapy, behavior modification, relation development therapy, applied behavioral analysis using optimistic and child friendly approaches and clinician directed models.

We started Shishu Pragathi Child Development center from 2014 we worked with newborns, infants, toddlers, children with various developmental concerns, delays and disorders providing physical therapy, sensory integration, early intervention, cognitive therapy, behavioral and speech and language therapy, art therapy, remedial therapy, parental counselling, individualized developmental plans.

At Shishu Pragathi Child Development center we believe in early developmental assessment and early intervention with intensive effective, evidence-based intervention focusing on all areas of development-like vision, auditory, gross motor, fine motor, sensory, behavioral, speech and language, cognitive, logic, feeding, self-help skills, academic skills, Our vision is promoting prevention as well as early intervention reducing severity of developmental delay and disorders. At our clinic we believe in collecting history of development of every child and assess them from neurological, physical growth, weight and height parameters, genetic, gastric issues, food allergies, metabolic and neurological observation, assessments and follow-up medical doctors or specialist guidance addressing developmental concern in most advanced way possible. We work all developmental delay and disorder children with intensive and holistic approach focusing on cognitive behavioral therapy, gross and fine motor therapy, physical therapy, sensory integration/ occupational therapy, behavior modification, relation development therapy, applied behavioral analysis using optimistic and child friendly approaches and clinician directed models. We started shishu pragathi child development center from 2014 we worked with newborns, infants, toddlers, children with various developmental concerns, delays and disorders providing physical therapy, sensory integration, early intervention, cognitive therapy, behavioral and speech and language therapy, art therapy, remedial therapy, parental counselling, individualized developmental plans.

Goals at Shishu Pragathi development center is to create awareness among parents about importance of developmental assessment for each and every kid,not of only aiming at-risk and high-risk infants and toddlers at each every month from birth to three years of age follow up to track milestones of all developmental areas, correlate with pre, peri and post-natal history, family environment, parental roles in stimulation in early identification or catch infants with delay in development due to various developmental concerns and provide plan for early stimulation at homes promoting all areas of development, counsel parents how to interact with their kids on par with their age, toys to buy, create environment according to child developmental needs. Early intervention plays key role in better prognosis, reduce severity of developmental issues and improve quality of life of special children and people with disabilities.

Children with developmental disorders and disabilities needed speech and language therapy, physical therapy, occupational/sensory integration therapy, feeding therapy, remedial therapy with intensive and tailor-made treatments which need to begin below two years and need to followed up through childhood, preadolescence, adolescence to improve independent living skills of child and interaction with family, and promote families life needs and quality life improvement and happy and peaceful life

What is speech and language therapy?

Speech and language therapy is an effective and evidence based scientific discipline provided by bachelors and master trained speech and language professionals to infants, toddlers, children and adults with speech and language problems, communication disorders, articulation disorders, voice disorders due to neurogenic, psychogenic, traumatic conditions, genetic syndromes.

Speech and language therapy is provided to toddlers and children to improve understanding and expression skills of language for children with autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, cerebral palsy, developmental motor disorders, auditory processing disorders, sensory processing disorders apraxia of speech, intellectual disability, learning disorders, slow learners, stammering or fluency problems, speech clarity problems due articulation and phonological disorders.

Who is a speech language pathologist?

Speech language pathologist who further trained with early intervention is trained to improve infants, toddlers and children to catch up milestones and grow on par with cognitive skills, behavioral, speech and language, communication skills, play skills, fine-motor functioning and literacy skills development.

How does speech language pathologist help children with autism spectrum disorders?

Speech and language therapy is provided for children with autism spectrum disorders to improve attention span, understanding speech and language components like processing syllables, phonemes, words, phrases and sentences, encourage children how to meaningfully engage with toys, objects during play, respond to commands, recite rhymes, do actions for rhymes, encourage imitating actions, emotions, expressions, sound repetition, body movement, improve behavioral skills, cognitive skills, social interaction skills, reading and writing skills, self-help skills development.

Feeding and swallowing therapist

Expertise speech language pathologist who further trained to work on feeding and swallowing skills management in newborns, infants, Toddlers and children work on assessing delayed of difficulty in feeding due to developmental disorders, screen addiction eating disorders, distractive eating disorders, picky eating habits, difficulty in eating textures like solids, liquids on par with their age, sensory defensiveness in touching wet foods with fingers and hands, difficulty in chewing solids, limited food repertoire skills.

Speech language pathologist with feeding expertise will work on improving attention towards eating, reduce distraction,

encourage oral awareness of food, guide parents’ what utensils to be used, milestones and texture of foods need to be introduced to children according to their developmental age, alertness to aspiration, improve four phases of eating.

Toddlers and children with difficulty eating and has aspiration issues is further provided advanced feeding treatment options like gastric tubes to meet nutrition and dietary requirements of everyday life.

Speech and language pathologist cum feeding expertise will work with textures directly in therapy sessions, perform oral exercises, massages to improve oral awareness, reduce sensory issues, improve oral range of motion of jaw lips, tongue and oral muscles.

Developmental language disorders, language learning disorders, slow learners, learning disability

Speech and language therapist will work with children with different language disorders to improve language comprehension, vocabulary understanding, language concepts like comparisons, like big, small, colors, opposites, prepositions, verbs, adverbs, grammar and syntax of language which promotes special understanding of language and cognitive skills development which further improve child matching, cognitive skills and further achieve speech language skills for transition in general life and use them in everyday life.

Language comprehension development is basic for understanding commands following parent instructions as

well as orient and be aware about world or surroundings around them which promotes attention span, observation skills, cognitive skills development, memory skills improvement, sounds and word processing, developing meaningful relation between sound, word and actions.

Language comprehension is prerequisite for expressive skills development, which promote sound, phoneme, word repetition, improving oral imitation, oral speech and language skills development, word recitation skills development, thought understanding and thought expression using words orally

Language development promote cognitive skills development which promote play skills, self help skills which further promotes school readiness and social interaction thus leading to overall development.

Causes of speech and language delay and disorders

Developmental disorders:

Autism
Developmental delay
Cerebral palsy
Apraxia of speech
Mutism
Intellectual disorders

What causes speech and language disorders?

Sensory processing issues
Hearing disorders
Auditory processing disorders
Prematurity at birth
Preterm delivery
Low Apgar score
Developmental delay
Genetic disorders like down syndrome, retts disorder, chromosomal abnormalities
Poor parental stimulation
Neurodevelopmental disorders like autism spectrum disorders
Brain malformations
Neurological damage
Meningitis
Encephalitis
Microcephaly, hydrocephaly
Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
Torch group infections
Measles mumps disorders
Viral diseases
Poor social exposure
Parental anxiety and depression
Multilanguage environment
Low birth weight
Hospitalization during active development
Traumatic brain injury
Screen addiction
Seizure disorder
Epilepsy
Thyroid problems
Metabolic disorders
Toxin exposure
Heavy metals exposure
Post traumatic stress disorders
Gestational diabetes
Pregnancy induced hypertension
Cardiac problems

Role of early intervention

Early intervention plays preventive role as a primary and secondary prevention leading to improving infants, toddlers and children to improve fast pace as well as structural and functional changes in brain to promote best prognosis.

Early start of therapy improves child development in all areas of development follow ladder or chain of normal milestones in fast pace promoting social and academic development, scholastic progress reduces severity of diagnosis making child to progress functionally making them as normal as possible.

To make an infant, toddler and children are eligible for early intervention need regular developmental assessment from birth to three years to assess different areas of development through milestone observation, formal developmental scales assessment and counselling parents according to risk factors and development.