During the past 50 years much interst has been shown in the linguistic element of rhythm. Rhythm is both visual and auditive; the auditive aspect is of greater importance. Rhytm is also a constituive element of time and plays a major role in man's movemnts on both macro and micro level. speaking is to be situated within micro motor system.
It is a fact that learning is influnced bty the perception of sensori-motor structres. Rhythm is also significant with regard to affectivity and emotions. the tonality, duration, pitch and accent change according to changes in emotion. without going too deep into each of the above-mentioned elements, it is advisable to consider that a child's conscious body schema is partly realised through the control of movements in time.
Structured movement in time is called rhythm. And man's speech is closely linked to it. More that with hearing people, learning and controlling the speech rhythm (breathing) is of much importance for the deaf. Oral methods attach much great importance to it.
Pronunciation and breathing are trained together by means of breathing exercises. at the Dutch St. Michiels-Gestel speech education is intimately linked to breathing control. learners use an individual small wind organ before producing rhythmical sounds. The child will have trained the rhythmic production of sound on the win organ before trying to pronounce the speech sounds.
In speech therapy one has to train the fundamental rhythmical elements of speech. They differ from language to language. One should study children's rhymes to find the rhythmical elements.
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