A New Horizon in Logopaedics: Speech Therapeutic Story – Innovative Use of a Story in the Therapy of Children Speech Impediments

A speech therapeutic story is an innovative method of working with a child, combining the plot of a therapeutic story with speech therapy. The aim of using this aid is to provide the child with a two-dimensional help, namely to teach it the correct pronunciation as well as to support it emotionally through the reduction of fear and the encouragement for verbal communication. The attractive form of a speech therapeutic story (interesting presentation, multimedia form, the use of a puppet) is to arouse positive emotions in the child: overcoming the fear and the sense of isolations, boosting its self- esteem, consequently motivating it to articulatory training, and after the achievement of the desired result – giving the feeling of self-acceptance and success.