CONSULTATIONS OF "CICERO" CENTER

COMPLEX DIAGNOSTICS

The diagnostics is carried out with focus on psychological, medical and pedagogical aspects by high qualified specialists, teachers, speech therapists, neurologists. The main purpose is to help to balance to the greatest possible extent the development of each child.

Tasks of complex diagnostics:

- - Indication of the primary causes of poor progress at school, communication, and disadaptation in micro and macro social environment;

- creation of individual guidelines to enhance and support the further development of your child.

We suggest:

• Speech therapists - deep diagnostics of oral and written speech, including application of innovative computer technologies and hardware of computer technologies;
• Education psychologists - psychological diagnostics: Testing the BEST test, the resolution of family problems.
• Neurologists- diagnostic consultation and functional examination (in the framework of cooperation with the Medical production cooperative society «Prognoz».

DEEP DIAGNOSTICS OF WRITTEN AND ORAL SPEECH

Better to prevent the problem in advance
than to treat it for a long time later.

Practice of teachers and doctors suggests that over the last years the number of children who have cardiovascular or microvascular injuries to the brain during pregnancy and childbirth has sharply increased; it leads to the so-called «minimal brain dysfunction» (MBD). The consequence was the increase of neurological and somatic and speech pathologies of children. Children in the vast majority of cases are weakened, emotionally unstable, hyperactive, with damaged memory and disorder of attention.

«...depending on different mechanisms and localization of brain damages, a complex structure of the speech activity can "break" in the various segments and lead to different defects of speech» (A.R. Luria, 1973).

This trend has increased the number of children, who are unable to acquire usual educational programs and who experience learning difficulties which has led to minor symptoms - neurosis, disadaptation, deviant behavior. (According to A.N. Korneva, there are about 65-70% of disadapted in St. Petersburg).

Children with speech disorders have complexes of disorders:

neurological pathology:
• MBD;
• hyperexcitability syndrome;

somatic disorders:
• FIC (frequently ill children);
• vegetative disorders;
• cardio pulmonary pathology;
• ENT pathology;
• poor posture;

psychological problems:
• emotional instability;
• hyperactivity;
• disorders of memory, attention;
• disadaptation;
• deviant behavior;

serious speech pathology:
• disorders of the respiratory and voice functions;
• disorders of the phonetic aspects of speech and its prosodic components;
• disorders of the phonetic and phonemic processes;
• disorders of the lexico-grammatical aspect of speech;
• disorders of reading and writing.

It is rather difficult to break and correct such pathological stereotypes, so if You're concerned about the child's behavior, his gap in development, you should consult a specialist.

It is better to start correction, normalization and improvement of speech and of the functional state of the organism from the early preschool age, together with interpenetration of medical, pedagogical and psychological methods.

If disorders in the development of a child's speech system are remained unnoticed by his parents and were not identified and corrected in the early or preschool age by speech therapists, then in school these children face a lot of problems, both in behavior and in training activities. These children come to school and fall in the category of under-achievers; they become unsocial because they are aware of their shortcomings, and later they can fall in the risk group of the school and social disadaptation.

CONTENT OF DIAGNOSTICS

Preschoolers are being diagnosed with focus on:

• medical history
• actual condition of nonverbal mental functions
• actual condition of verbal mental functions
• pronunciation of sounds
• sound-syllabic structure of words
• phonematic perception, analytics and synthesis skills
• linguistic analysis and synthesis skills
• lexico-grammatical structure of speech
• reading skills (if a child can read)
• writing skills (6-7 years old children)

Elementary school age children are being diagnosed with focus on:

• medical history
• actual condition of nonverbal mental functions
• actual condition of verbal mental functions
• pronunciation of sounds
• sound-syllabic structure of words
• phonematic perception, analytics and synthesis skills
• linguistic analysis and synthesis skills
• lexico-grammatical structure of speech
• reading skills
• state of alphabetic gnosis
• techniques of reading of syllables and words of various sound and syllable structures
• reading and comprehension of texts
• writing skills
• state of alphabetical praxis
• rewriting texts
• alphabetic dictations
• syllabic dictations
• writing of sentences
• acoustic dictations
• aural dictations
• word quizzes
• expositions (from second grade)

Based on the attained results of diagnostics speech therapist carries out (written survey if needed) a detailed report describing the level of child's nonverbal and verbal mental functions development, psychic functions and their correspondence with age-specific norms, stating presence or absence of speech pathology.

FORMAT OF DIAGNOSTICS

The examination is performed on an individual mode in the way of an entertaining game during the conversation with a child and parents in 1 or 2 sessions for preschoolers; 2-4 sessions for elementary school age children (90 minutes per session)

Diagnostics is carried out by means of combination of traditional methods and innovative computer technologies.

• Complex diagnostic-correctional computer program CICERO. LOGO DIAKORR"

• Methods of biological feedback