INTRODUCTION  The rehabilitation in oropharyngeal dysphagia evidence-based implies the relationship between the interventions and their results. OBJECTIVE  Analyze level of dysphagia, oral ingestion, anxiety levels and nutritional status of patients with stroke diagnosis, before and after speech therapy. METHOD  Clinical assessment of dysphagia partially using the Protocol of Risk Assessmen...

Speech movement coordination involves substantial timing adjustments among multiple degrees of muscles and movement freedom. The present investigation examined the kinematic and muscle timing adjustments associated with the production of select speech movements. For oral closing movements, the timing of the upper lip, lower lip, and jaw peak velocities were found to be tightly coupled, apparent...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the presence of abnormal oral reflexes and speech sound production in children with severe cerebral palsy. MATERIALS & METHODS Seven oral reflexes such as, rooting, mouth-opening, biting, chewing, lip, tongue, and suckling were examined in 52Persian-speaking monolingual children with spastic cerebral palsy (ages 5...

Speakers with velopharyngeal incompetence, produce hypernasal speech across voiced elements. During the production of vowels, due to the defective velopharyngeal mechanism, oral cavity gets coupled with the nasal cavity. This coupling may introduce resonances of nasal cavity in the resulting vowel sound. In the present study, an attempt is made to convert pure vowels in to its nasalized counter...

Maintaining oral function in patients undergoing glossectomy boosts interventions such as prosthetic rehabilitation. However, current literature still fails in the presentation of results of prosthetic rehabilitation in relation to speech or swallowing. The objective of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of prosthetic rehabilitation on voice, speech, and swallowing in patients under...

The Colorado Literacy Tutor (CLT) is a technology-based literacy program, designed on the basis of cognitive theory and scientifically motivated reading research, which aims to improve literacy and student achievement in public schools. One of the critical components of the CLT is a speech recognition system which is used to track the child’s progress during oral reading and to provide sufficie...

If baby’s with a Cleft Palate are treated early, in the first year of life, for problems in speech perception (oral as well as auditory), a more normal speech and language production at the age of two years is found than in case such treatment is not given at all or late, in the second year of life. In our study 30 two-year old children with a Cleft Palate were examined. Some children with a co...

This study reports a new integrated device for measuring oral and nasal airflow with lossless speech recording with preliminary results on Chinese plosives. An acoustically transparent fiber-made mask acts both as a material for airflow resistance and a support for partitioning oral and nasal chambers. Two pressure sensors placed directly on the mask measure air pressure signals that correspond...

Speech perception test results were obtained from a group of 40 pediatric cochlear implant users. Half of the children participated in oral-only habilitation programs, which included both traditional oral and auditory-verbal approaches, and half participated in programs that used a combination of oral and manual communication referred to as total communication (TC). Analysis of the scores showe...

CONTEXT Permanent hearing loss affects 1 to 3 per 1000 children and interferes with typical communication development. Early detection through newborn hearing screening and hearing technology provide most children with the option of spoken language acquisition. However, no consensus exists on optimal interventions for spoken language development. OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review of th...