Non-speech Oro-motor Exercises

The disertation deals with forming a unit view of Oral - Motor Speech Exercises. It ofers and revers to the importace of the motoric skill development in the orafacial area with help of Oral - Motor Speech Exercises, before addresing the articulation remedy proces itself. The latter fact is often neglegted. The speech therapy recovery is failing then, or it gets prematurely terminated. The dissartation is organised in seven chapters. The first two chapters deal with a theoretical delimination of the basic concepts and an analysis into the Czech and overseas technical literature available including a selectrion of therapeutic approaches. The third chapter analyses the anatomy of the orofacial system in speech therapy. The fourth chapter scrutinizes the speech from the point of view of the motoric performance and its control by the central nervous system. The fifth chapter reviews oral - motoric skill development