European Speech Therapy Day will be celebrated on March 6 . It was created by the standing committee of speech therapists of the European Union in 2004. The creation of the celebration aims to promote awareness of the profession in Europe. The main objective is information, visibility and help. Provide information about various speech, language and communication disorders . The information is for patients, providing information about language disorders and the existing treatment possibilities.

This day was created in order to inform and sensitize political institutions and society of the importance that speech therapists have as specialists for the well-being of many people around the world and the scope they can have in helping people. people who suffer from language problems .

• What is Speech Therapy?

Speech therapy is a discipline that treats problems present in the fields of speech, language, voice and communication from the cognitive, physical and physiological fields.

The speech therapist is a professional who works with people of any age with people who have different disorders in human communication. The field of action of the speech therapist includes early care, health centers, educational centers, etc. The work is basically to diagnose, prevent and treat language disorders, both in children and adults. Being a science that studies language and hearing disorders. Although they focus mainly on children and their work with them, it is very helpful.

-Problems that speech therapists treat:

Some of the cases that we can find on a daily basis in the practice of a speech therapist are:

– Speech, articulation, and pronunciation disorders: dyslalias, dysarthrias, dysglosias, verbal fluency disorders. For example: (Dysphemia or stuttering, dysprosody, bradilalia, taquilalia). Speech delays.

– Oral language disorders: delays in language development, specific language disorder, aphasia (stroke or cerebrovascular accident), language disorders associated with other disorders such as Down syndrome, autism or cerebral palsy.

– Written language disorders: Dyslexia, dysgraphia, dysorthography, reading and/or writing delay.

– Voice disorders: Aphonias, dysphonias (nodules, polyps, Reinke's edema in children and adults; laryngectomized patients.

– Hearing disorders : Cochlear implants, hearing loss, deafness.

– Communication disorders: Augmentative/alternative communication systems.

– Myofunctional disorders: Hypotonia or hypertonia of the facial muscles, tongue protrusion, velopalatine incompetence, mouth breathing, atypical swallowing, dysphagia.

The celebration manages to increase people's awareness of language problems . As well as a wide variety of communication disorders and the role that therapists play in it. A celebration of this magnitude allows us to show the general public that speech therapists and therapists have a common goal and that they are working and giving their best to achieve it. Together they work to achieve a greater and more dynamic impact in promoting the health and well-being of children and adults with communication problems throughout the European Union.