Speech therapy for children

For a child in today's world, shaped by the war, is filled with emotions of sadness, anger, fear, and sorrow. It is incredibly hard when these emotions prevent children from expressing their thoughts: their words go unheard, their sounds become distorted, and they struggle to speak clearly. Speech disorders create a communication barrier that hinders learning, making friends, and feeling confident. When speech development is delayed or impaired, it affects every aspect of a child's life. They may face misunderstanding from peers, teasing, or simply difficulties in play and communication, challenges with completing tasks, leading to academic struggles and stress at school, and lowered self-esteem. The inability to express oneself often transforms into aggression, tantrums, or, conversely, withdrawal and apathy.

Among the children we support are those who have endured particularly traumatic circumstances during the war, including psychological trauma, the loss of parental love and close family connections, violence, and social maladjustment. For them, speech disorders are often a consequence of deep emotional distress and stress. Since the war began, we have been increasingly encountering significant speech delays, severe articulation and phonological disorders, difficulties with word structure and sentence formation, challenges in constructing coherent narratives, fear of communication, and reluctance to speak.

In our Foundation, a speech therapist comes to the children's aid. Their work is not just about correcting sounds. They teach children to express their thoughts, feelings, and needs clearly to others, help them overcome barriers in reading, writing, and understanding educational material, and assist them in regaining self-confidence and socializing. Clear speech gives children the opportunity to learn, play with peers, make friends, and feel part of a community.

For our Foundation's speech therapist to work regularly with the children, including those needing help after experiencing severe hardship (children from the Center for Social-Psychological Rehabilitation), we need your support. Your contribution to our project will help us pay for the speech therapist's (special education teacher's) work, as well as purchase necessary speech therapy materials and cover phone/internet costs for conducting remote online sessions. By investing in these children, you are giving them a future: the gift of self-confidence, the ability to learn, make friends, and dream without limits.