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THE INFLUENCE OF SPEECH THERAPY TREATMENT ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL ABILITIES OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
The main objective of the study was to determine the developmental abilities of preschool children before and after six
months of speech therapy treatment, and to examine the impact of the time of initiation of speech therapy treatment on the
developmental abilities of children. The sample consisted of 35 children (20 male children and 15 female children), and all
respondents reported early intervention due to speech and language difficulties. The age of the respondents ranged from 25
to 60 months. After conducting interviews with parents, taking anamnestic data, professional speech therapy diagnosticobservational procedure and determining speech-language disorders, the children underwent speech therapy treatment.
After six months, a final assessment was made and the results showed statistically significant progress in all variables
describing developmental abilities in children. The predictor “Time of treatment initiation” also had a statistically
significant impact on all tested variables of developmental abilities of preschool children. The results showed that speech
therapy treatment enables significant progress in all developmental areas in children, i.e. that progress in one development
area follows the development of other areas