Sunday, November 25, 2012

COLOR THERAPY TO CURE SPEECH DEFECTS


To treat speech defects of young or adult patient, I use the color therapy which is one of the techniques I have been applying since I started to be a speech and language trainer and therapist in 1994.

To avail my SPEECH TRAINING AND THERAPY SERVICES, please call +639187857807.

I have been offering man-to-man sessions since 2006. I find the individualized instructions more interesting, effective, and personalized.




Wednesday, November 14, 2012

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TRAINER AND THERAPIST



I have been a speech and language trainer and therapist since 1994.

The following are the speech disorders I can NATURALLY treat.
1. speech defects due to global development delay, ADHD or ADD, and autism
2. stuttering
3. cluttering
4. dysprosody
5. speech sounds disorders
6. articulation disorders
7. phonemic disorders
8. voice disorders
9. language disorders such as aphasia, syntax, semantics, elements of speech
10.  motor speech disorders
 and other disorders related to language acquisitions
Call +639187857807 for your MAN-TO-MAN sessions.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

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


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.



Thursday, August 30, 2012

CHILD'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT....

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. 


Tuesday, August 28, 2012

YOGA THERAPY FOR TREATING SPEECH DEFECTS....

 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!

Monday, August 20, 2012

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

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.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

SPECIAL CLASSES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS







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.