We have to be clear that children are children and as such they will scream in different areas of their day to day, whether doing sports, at school playground, playing in the park, or because they get angry, mount tantrums, cry and they become congested; but if they have a good pattern they can keep screaming as unpleasant as it may seem to us without actually hurting the vocal cords.
It is important that at the time of speaking we teach our children since they are very small good vocal habits, as simple and practical as a good breathing pattern, an adequate posture, a correct coordination between breathing and phonation, and avoiding tension in the neck area, since all this directly influences the quality of the voice.
Be due to bad habits or as a result of some catarrhal process or some other disease. We will begin by correctly differentiating two terms from which we normally misuse; aphonia and dysphonia. The prefix ‘a’ indicates a total loss, in this case the voice, and ‘dis’ a malfunction. That’s why when we say “I’m aphonic” for having a hoarse voice, we should really say “I’m dysphonic.”
The most common voice pathologies in children are functional and organic dysphonia, whose difference is that, in the first case, they are due to a malfunctioning of the phonic devices, while the second type of dysphonia is when they are produced by a organic cause, such as a nodule, a polyp or a cyst.
In the case of organic dysphonia in children, if they are located on time through the otolaryngology professional, with good speech therapy provided by speech therapists, provided they are specialized, they can be corrected and disappear without the need for surgical intervention.
With good patterns and proper vocal habits we can help our children to correct these voice problems, and we will accompany you with various exercises that will help you to rehabilitate your voice if you have had any of these pathologies, or learn to use it correctly and avoid overexertion.
A good respiratory pattern is one in which we inhale through the nose and expel the air while we talk without tension. You have to avoid that unnecessary tension, because the air we use to speak is driven from our diaphragm.
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