Listy klinické logopedie

Listy klinické logopedie 2025, 9(1):67-74 | DOI: 10.36833/lkl.2025.012354

SPEECH IN RHYTHM OR WHY INTENSIVE AND INTERVAL THERAPY IN SPEECH THERAPY WORKS

PhDr. Veronika Včelíková, Ph.D.¹, Mgr. Lea Šafránková²

¹ Katedra speciální a inkluzivní pedagogiky PdF MU Brno, Poříčí 945/9, 603 00 Brno, Česká republika.

² Centrum Bosa, Ostopovická 29, 642 00 Brno, Česká republika

Speech, movement, proper ontogenetic development of the individual, cognition, emotions, ability to learn, memory and the list could go on. All of these are directly dependent on balance, which is based on the rhythm realised at an optimal pace with sufficient intensity and in regularly recurring intervals of well-chosen timing. Often, due to automated activities, we are not aware of the regularity, planning and organisation with which we perform the basic motor patterns that we intuitively and quite naturally learn through sufficiently intense interval rhythmic activities. And it is precisely the therapy in Speech Therapy practice conducted intensively and at intervals, that helps to positively influence the prognosis of children and pupils in their speech development, regardless of whether we use a directive or non-directive approach. This is confirmed, among other things, by the brief case example of a client with a severe myofunctional disorder, presented in the end of the paper.

Keywords: learning and the cerebrum, synaptogenesis, Intensive and Interval Therapy, regularity, rhythmic movements, speech, language and communication, motor planning

Received: March 13, 2025; Revised: April 24, 2025; Accepted: April 27, 2025; Prepublished online: June 9, 2025; Published: June 14, 2025  Show citation