IRAP includes individual and collective speech therapy in its educational program.
The number of sessions is determined according to the needs of the deaf child.
Speech therapists are an integral part of the institute's multidisciplinary team and play an important role in parental guidance and support of the educational team.
Speech therapy stimulates deaf children to develop oral and gestural communication.
Speech therapy helps them to discover their expressive and receptive possibilities, to take their place in a group, by recreating, through play, stimulating situations of daily life.
Likewise, the speech therapist has a vital role in the hearing education of deaf children, starting from early education.
The objective of hearing education is to optimally rehabilitate the hearing function of the deaf child according to their type and degree of deafness, their equipment and their potential in order to enable them to appropriate the sound world. .
It is about putting meaning into auditory perceptions, differentiating and distinguishing noises and then the sounds of speech more and more finely until we manage to decode oral language in the most appropriate and natural way possible.
