SPEECH TRAINING AND SPEECH THERAPY

NEVER CONCLUDE THAT A CHILD IS AUTISTIC....UNLESS....

2012-09-01T06:16:00.000-07:00

I don't really understand why we can easily say that a child is autistic without understanding his/her personality completely.

We can never tell that a child who has difficulty in speaking is already autistic without assessing his/her skills, behaviours, attitudes, intelligences based on the Multiple Intelligences Theory of Dr. Howard Gardner which has been modified by me. I added more intelligences which I want to see in a person. We can also never tell that a child is autistic without examining his genes, his foods, and medical history.

This morning, September 1st, 2012, I had a four-year old son who repeats my utterances, hardly recognizes letters, interchanges letters and sounds, doesn't understand instructions, can't really follow my instructions, can't write well, etc., etc., BUT I STILL HAVE TO DIAGNOSE THE CAUSES OF these developmental delays. As an educator and a language training specialist, I have learned that it is paramount to examine first the child thoroughly and to determine first the contributing factors why the child behaves as if he or she is autistic before I can tell that a child is having autism spectrum or autism disorder.

I have learned that autism is genetic. I also learned that autism is caused by a lot of factors which include food and medication.

So why should I conclude that this child who came to me this morning is autistic?

Ahah. Never should I conclude that a child has autism syndrome UNLESS the child has been with me for at least a year. After training and the child really cannot speak well, cannot develop his/her skills and intelligences, then that's the right time I can say that the child is really autistic. BUT I will still recommend the child to undergo GENETIC TESTING or DNA TEST.

NO MATTER HOW OTHER SPECIALISTS OR TEACHERS SAY THAT THE CHILD IS AUTISTIC, I WON'T BELIEVE IT UNLESS IT IS PROVEN BY MY OWN ASSESSMENT, JUDGMENT, EVALUATIONS, ANALYSES, AND TRAINING.

CHILD'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT....

2012-08-30T08:16:00.001-07:00

I have mastered English Language Teaching. I learned when a child learns to coo, to babble, to enunciate some sounds, and to utter a few words even without understanding.

I learned when a child starts uttering some words, when a child puts together words to construct a sentence, and when a child starts to understand.

Every stage of development, there's an equivalent skill or ability.

To learn more about Child's Language Development, please click the link below:
http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/behavior/not_talk.html

If you have found your child to have some of the aforementioned speech defects, you may need my services: speech training and speech therapy. Call +639187857807. Thank you.

YOGA THERAPY FOR TREATING SPEECH DEFECTS....

2012-08-28T10:56:00.001-07:00

An online dictionary defines yoga as:
" a system of exercises practiced as part of the Hindu discipline to promote control of the body and mind "
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/yoga

I started learning yoga since I was a child. But my mom told me not to engage more in yoga because of its religious implications.

I don't consider yoga as a religious practice. I take yoga as a form of exercises. Since then, I have been applying yoga into myself and have been including yoga as my health and beauty regimen. Yoga has been helping me a lot.

Some of the many benefits of yoga for include improving or enhancing of….

Strength, flexibility and balance
Concentration, focus and attention
Inner strength and body awareness
Confidence and self-esteem
Creativity and imagination
Awareness of breath
Relaxation and self-control
Feeling of well-being and respect for others
Boosts metabolism, lymphatic circulation and hormonal circulation
Improves immune response system
Enhances digestion
Improves memory and ability to follow directions
Increases lung capacity and facilitates deeper breathing

To know more about yoga, please follow the links below:
http://www.dadaveda.com/eightpartsofyoga.htm

http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/beginnersguide/yogaprinciples.asp

Because of Yoga attributes, I have been using it in giving and conducting speech therapy to my patients.

Send e-mails to bridgesblitz@yhoo.com OR call me at +639187857807 if you feel like you need my services.

Thank you!

SINGING THERAPY FOR MY STROKE PATIENT THIS MORNING, AUGUST 20TH, 2012

2012-08-20T03:50:00.001-07:00

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/12/26/144152193/singing-therapy-helps-stroke-patients-speak-again
I was paralyzed for 7 years.
I was hospitalized in 2002 because of congenital heart disease and kidney failure.
My body system totally bogged down.
I actually "died", clinically dead for 20 minutes.
The nephrologist attending to me that year told me that "I had the chance of 50 percent survival rate. So I told Dr. Ong to release me because my Father in Heaven could give me 100% life or 100% death. There's no 50-50 chance of surviving with my Father, and there's no 50-50 chance of dying, too.

Then before my brother Bern went to Vietnam to work as an electrical and mechanical engineer that year, he prayed me over to our Father. I remember my brother prayed to our Father to have mercy on me; that if HE wanted to take my life away, HE could take it at once since I already have spent decades of my life being sick; that I have been suffering so much and a lot because of my sicknesses; and that if GOD would still want to give me life since HE knows that I have been using my life in serving HIM, HE has all the powers to give my life back at once so I could go back to serving HIM.

I remember the miracle that happened on that day when my brother prayed, but I can't remember the exact date. I was not in the right disposition to remember everything. I was vegetable.

Before my brother Bern took his flight on that night, he sent messages to my brother Arthuro and sister Marivic; that if they would want to see me alive, they should go to my place at once.

Arthuro, my therapist brother who was living in Bulacan province that time came at once, as soon as he received the message of our brother Bern. He gave me a therapy which he learned from Japan. My brother Arthuro gave me a therapy far different from the therapies being given by other Filipino therapists. It's a combination of therapy and reflexology of different countries especially Japan and Thailand which in the later days also became part of my knowledge.

Every one who came to my place the next morning was shocked. My sister Marivic who I have been helping through these years even uttered, "Sabi ni Bern eh mamamatay ka na. Yan ba ang mamamatay na? Kumakanta ka pa?" (Bern told us that you are dying. Is that dying? You are still singing?)

That's real.
I felt that GOD heard the supplications of my brother Bern so I felt there was a force pushing me to get up. And as soon as I got up, the first thing that came to my mind was singing. I was afraid of losing my voice which eventually got lost, I suffered for the next 7 years of my life. I lost my voice. I lost everything that GOD had given me while I was still in the womb of my mom.

That day after the prayer of my brother Bern, the ONLY THING THAT CAME TO MY MIND WAS TO REGAIN MY VOICE BECAUSE I SHOULD STILL BE USING IT FOR GLORIFYING MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.

SO I got the microphone and turned on the karaoke system. When my sister Marivic and her daughter Hannagae came, they saw me sitting on my bed with my legs stretched since my right leg was still not moving while I was singing "You Needed Me".

Yes. I was singing right after the day when my brother Bern asked our Father to heal me. Then the next days were all milestones and great histories of my life.

To make the story short, I totally regained my voice in 2010 after I prayed to my Father during the hours of our worship services while sitting in the choir loft to give back to me the voice that is pleasing to HIM, the voice which I would be using in glorifying HIS MOST HOLY NAME!

Singing and music have been part of the therapies which I MYSELF ADMINISTERED TO MY DEAD BODY, PLUS THE PHYSICAL THERAPIES of my brother Arthuro, and most especially the LOVE AND MERCY OF THE HOLY FATHER, I AM NOW BACK IN THE CHOIR LOFT TO SING PRAISES UNTO HIM.

In the morning of today, August 20th, 2012, I went out of my training centre to give a speech therapy to a stroke patient who lives in Quezon City, Philippines.

I FELT I WAS CRITICIZED BECAUSE I APPLIED SINGING IN THE SPEECH THERAPY THAT I GAVE TO A 57-year-old woman WHO IS STILL BEDRIDDEN. I tried to help the patient to open her mouth and to move her tongue naturally. I also wanted to activate her brain and to rejuvenate her senses. But I felt like I was mocked and I saw some disapproval grimaces from their faces. Anyway, I don't need an audience when I give a speech therapy, but they were all around me this morning.

And because of what I felt inside the room, after my online classes this afternoon at 2, I searched the answer from the internet whether I could use music and singing to a stroke patient, and this is what I have found.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=144152193&m=144273991

AMAZING! I thought I was the ONLY ONE USING MUSIC AND SINGING IN THE SPEECH THERAPIES. I can't say that they are copying me because they have this audio while I don't have any audios or videos of my speech therapies BECAUSE I DON'T WANT SOMEONE TO BE MY COPYCAT.

On the other hand, they can't also tell that I am copying them because it is ONLY TODAY THAT I CAME ACROSS WITH THIS....http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=144152193&m=144273991

THIS IS ONLY ONE PROOF THAT FILIPINO OCCUPATIONAL, PHYSICAL, AND SPEECH THERAPISTS LAG BEHIND IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THERAPIES. MY KNOWLEDGE IS NOT JUST DERIVED FROM BOOKS AND NOT JUST ACQUIRED FROM SCHOOLS. MY KNOWLEDGE COMES FROM MY FATHER, ONE VERY IMPORTANT REASON THAT I SHOULD ONLY USE MY KNOWLEDGE IN GIVING GLORY TO MY FATHER.

SPECIAL CLASSES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

2012-08-14T20:04:00.001-07:00

Children with special needs are given special care and special attention at the BRIDGES&BLITZ Training & Tutorials Centre, We offer the following for them:
1. small group classes
2. one-on-one classes

Through these sessions, children develop the following skills:
1. listening
2. speaking
3. reading
4. writing
5. grammar and sentence structures
6. academic skills in Mathematics and Science
7. social
8. thinking
9. personality
10. logical skills
and many more

If you want your child to be developed at a very young age, feel free to contact us at +639187857807 OR you may send your e-mails to bridgesblitz@yahoo.com.

We accept children aged from 2 and a half years old to four years old for their nursery and preparatory education and for the treatments of any defects they have: learning difficulties, behavioural problems, ADHD, autism, speech defects, global development delay, etc.

SEMINAR IN SPEECH DISORDERS, SYMPTOMS, AND TREATMENTS

2012-08-06T02:54:00.003-07:00

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=509317459081657#!/photo.php?v=509326725747397

SEMINAR IN SPEECH DISORDERS, SYMPTOMS, AND TREATMENTS:
A 2-hour talk about speech disorders, symptoms, and natural treatments

August 25th, 2012
3 P.M.
BRIDGES&BLITZ Training Centre
473e 3F T&E Banez Bldg.
Tandang Sora Ave.,
Culiat,
Quezon City
Philippines
Right across from the New Era Public School

FEE: 200PHP

THE TRAINER/SPEAKER:
Prof. Jean Padua Ayende Totanes
Education and English Language Trainer

DEVELOPING ELEMENTS OF SPEECH AND SPEECH MECHANISM

2012-07-07T09:06:00.000-07:00

Two important areas to study critically and to develop among people who CANNOT really talk are the elements of speech and the speech mechanism.

Definition of Speech Mechanism for you to understand well
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Speech+Mechanisms

Know more about the Linguistic Elements of Speech by clicking and reading these:
http://www.bartleby.com/186/2.html

http://www.amazon.com/RULES-Rules-Linguistic-Elements-Speech-Teachers-Edition/dp/0971703833

Persons with SPEECH DEFECTS should undergo training in these areas so their SPEAKING ABILITIES will be honed and developed.

THE KIND OF SPEECH THERAPIES I HAVE BEEN OFFERING

2012-07-03T01:45:00.002-07:00

WATCH THESE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKDdw9VGitY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adcrv9IpGZI

I've been using the above techniques since I was a child. I was 11 years old when I started to handle a church choir. I was not a speech trainer yet. But I already applied the techniques in these videos in treating out of tune voices, dissonance, and discordance. If they are effective in treating singing defects, they are more effective in treating speech defects. I still use them now in the choir to have great resonance and vibrancy.

To my DISMAY, NO ONE AMONG THE FILIPINOS HAVE BELIEVED IN ME. After one day or two days of their speech therapies and speech training with me, they stopped. But I'm happy to note that foreign students welcomed my approaches especially Chinese and Korean students who couldn't really produce good sounds of the English Language, they still continue treating their speech defects with me VIA SKYPE.

My FIRST CLIENT FOR SPEECH THERAPY was a Korean student, a graduate of Accountancy in Seoul, Korea, in 2002 before I became dying of my congenital heart disease and a kidney failure. He was a fresh graduate from the Korean university that time, but couldn't find a job because he was always rejected by all companies where he applied for because of his physical and speech defects. He has the so-called cleft lip and palate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_lip_and_palate

I was teaching then at an International School here in the Philippines, teaching IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, BUSINESS ENGLISH, RESEARCH, THESIS WRITING, CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH, IDIOMS AND WRITING, SPOKEN ENGLISH, AND SPEECH to our foreign students; Russian, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

This guy came to my class one day begging me to accept him because no one wanted to accept him in other English Language classes because of his defects. I was then a consultant to that school, a Listening Department Head, and a Hiring Director.

This guy heard of my abilities since I had been teaching in that international school since 2000. I resigned when I started to establish my own in 2006.

I accepted him, started to do lots of therapies and English Language learning activities. To make the story short, he came back to Korea after 6 months. He said he would try to look for a job back in Korea. To make the story short again, he came back to me after 2 years in the same school thanking me for he was able to pass the interview despite his physical defects. His speech was clear. And he was able to land as a public accountant of a bank owned by the Korean government.

If you read this, please get in touch with me. I cannot write your name here to safeguard your reputation.

For those who suffer the same defects, and even slight or mild speech defects, please get in touch with me through my mobile phone to avail my training and therapy services.

Please call +639187857807.
My rate starts from 300PHP to 600PHP depending on the physical and speech defects.

Contact Person: Prof. Jean Ayende Totanes
Speech Trainer
Speech Therapist

SPEECH THERAPY: NATURAL METHODS OF TREATMENT

2012-05-21T23:09:00.000-07:00

I am a curriculum developer. I usually develop my own training programmes, modules, syllabuses, and curricula.

This is our own SPEECH TRAINING PROGRAMME here at the BRIDGES&BLITZ.

TRAINING PROGRAMME: SPT – Speech Therapy

DESCRIPTION: Speech Therapy treats the speech defects of any patients DIAGNOSTICALLY, NATURALLY, ACCORDINGLY, and INTEGRATIVELY. This training programme uses the NATURAL methods and approaches to treating speech defects of any individual who has impaired and imperfect speeches and language defects. This is a centre-based one-one-one training.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

1. Give NATURAL SOLUTIONS to individual’s speech problems and defects

2. Treat speech defects diagnostically, NATURALLY, accordingly, and integratively

RATES:

I. MILD CASES

250PHP - 350PHP / hour

II. SEVERE CASES

400PHP - 500PHP / hour

REQUIREMENTS:

1. results of the medical examination/s

2. doctor's certification that the child or an adult is allowed to undergo the speech therapy

3. NON-REFUNDABLE registration fee = 2,000PHP

4. advance payment of the training fees for 20 hours

a. MILD CASES

250PHP x 20 hours = 5,000PHP

350PHP x 20 hours = 7,000PHP

b. SEVERE CASES

400PHP x 20 hours = 8,000PHP

500PHP x 20 hours = 10,000PHP

DISCOUNTS are given to a patient who is gonna renew the training agreement and schedule and who will be taking much longer training hours.

POLICY:

First come, first served basis.

LANDMARKS:

1. New Era Public School = Elementary and High School

Tandang Sora Ave., Culiat, Quezon City, Philippines

2. Mercury DrugStore

Tandang SoraAve., Culiat, Quezon City, Philippines

DEVELOPING CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

2012-05-18T03:37:00.000-07:00

As an ESL Licensed Teacher and an ESL Certified Trainer, I use photos in developing creativity and imagination of a learner.

Creativity is the ability of the mind to form mental images. It is the activity of the mind that needs thinking and imagination.

Imagination is the ability of the mind to deal with reality through its creative power. It's a pre-cognitive competence that leads to developing one's thinking skill which is part of one's cognition.

Therefore, creativity and imagination work altogether to develop cognitive abilities. It's a must that creativity and imagination should be developed in a learner.

SPECIAL CLASSES FOR ADULTS SUFFERING FROM MEMORY LOSS

2012-04-23T02:01:00.001-07:00

Adults suffering from the following brain malfunctions take our SPECIAL training using the MODIFIED INTEGRATED MONTESSORI METHODS AND APPROACHES.

1. memory loss

memory loss - partial or total loss of memory;

2. amnesia

am·ne·sia

(m-nzh)

Partial or total loss of memory, usually resulting from shock, psychological disturbance, brain injury, or illness.

3. encephalopathy

" Encephalopathy is a term that means brain disease, damage, or malfunction. Encephalopathy can present a very broad spectrum of symptoms that range from mild, such as some memory loss or subtle personality changes, to severe, such as dementia, seizures, coma, or death. In general, encephalopathy is manifested by an altered mental state that is sometimes accompanied by physical manifestations (for example, poor coordination of limb movements)."

4. and other forms of brain malfunctions

http://www.silverribbon.org/about_disorders.htm

The MODIFIED INTEGRATED MONTESSORI EDUCATION is designed to help these patients recover from any of the above brain malfunctions through our MODIFIED NATURAL

APPROACHES.

Call +639187857807 or send e-mails to bridgesblitz@yahoo.com to enroll.

SPEECH THERAPY iN SUMMER 2012

2012-04-17T12:14:00.008-07:00

"Children who are disabled and children who are gifted have an area of development that is different from the average".
Realizing these differences, BRIDGES&BLITZ Training Centre located in Tandang Sora, Culiat, Quezon City, Philippines,through its OWN EDUCATIONAL MODEL: Modified Integrated Montessori, has opened SPECIAL MAN-TO-MAN CLASSES FOR SPECIAL AND GIFTED CHILDREN with the aims of giving solutions to their special needs and of giving NATURAL TREATMENTS to their speech defects.

If you NEED OUR SERVICES FOR YOUR SPECIAL AND GIFTED CHILD, please feel free to get in touch with us. Please send e-mails to:bridgesblitz@yahoo.com

Contact person: Prof. Jean Ayende Totanes
We've specialized in treating learning difficulties and speech defects!

Read more: http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/view+classifieds/id/522422/SPECIAL+MAN-TO-MAN+CLASSES+FOR+SPECIAL+AND+GIFTED+CHILDREN

Please take note of our location before you send your e-mails to me.

Thank you!

SPECIAL EDUCATION: MAN-TO-MAN CLASSES FOR SPECIAL AND GIFTED CHILDREN

2008-07-26T13:15:00.002-07:00

"Children who are disabled and children who are gifted have an area of development that is different from the average".
Realizing these differences, BRIDGES&BLITZ Training Centre&Tutorials, located at Tandang Sora, Quezon City, has opened SPECIAL MAN-TO-MAN CLASSES FOR SPECIAL AND GIFTED CHILDREN.

If you NEED OUR SERVICES FOR YOUR SPECIAL AND GIFTED CHILD, please feel free to get in touch with us. For more information and inquiries, please send e-mails to:bridgesblitz@yahoo.com
Contact person: Prof. Jean
WE ARE EARLY CHILDHOOD AND SPECIAL EDUCATION SPECIALISTS. We also specialized in SPEECH.Classes have just started. But you can enrol your child anytime you want since we are offering you MAN-TO-MAN CLASSES.
We are open from MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY from 11AM to 4PM FOR THESE SPECIAL CLASSES.