BACKGROUND Spoken and gestural communication proficiency varies greatly among autistic individuals. Three studies examined the role of oral- and manual-motor skill in predicting autistic children's speech development. METHODS Study 1 investigated whether infant and toddler oral- and manual-motor skills predict middle childhood and teenage speech fluency; Study 2 verified those early infant an...

We analyzed the relationship between goal achievement and execution variability in craftsmen who have acquired the highest "ultimate" skills of stone knapping. The goal of a knapping movement is defined as the vector of the final velocity of a hammer, crucial for detaching a flake and, consequently, for the shape of the final product. The execution of the movement is defined by the kinematic pa...

Oral stereognosis and oral motor ability tests are useful in considering the prognosis of treatment with dentures. The acute perceptive ability of the mouth is recognized even in the denture wearing patients, although in the area of fine discrimination they are at a slight disadvantage particularly if they are aged. Patients who have low denture tolerance generally tend to have high stereognost...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical usefulness of the Schedule for Oral-Motor Assessment (SOMA) in children with dysphagia by comparing findings of SOMA with those of the videofluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS). METHOD Both SOMA and VFSS were performed in 33 children with dysphagia (21 boys and 12 girls; mean age 17.3±12.1 months) who were referred for oropharyngeal evaluation. Ratings of...

BACKGROUND development assessment of preterm infants. AIM to evaluate the association between the gestational ages (GA) of premature infants with the global motor development as well as with early signs of sensory oral motor development delay, and to verify a possible association between them. METHOD an exploratory study that assessed the development of 55 infants with corrected chronologic...

OBJECTIVE: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common endocrine diseases with micro-vascular complications and is a common cause of polyneuropathy. We studied the effect of enalapril on electrophysiologic criteria and clinical symptoms of patients with type II diabetes and sensory neuropathy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A double blind study was conducted on 45 Patients with type II diabetes and ne...

Objective: The study aimed to compare motor functions and quality of life children with cerebral palsy (CP), as well anxiety depression levels caregivers according the feeding types children.
 Methods: included CP aged between 5-17 years. There were two groups: oral (n=19) non-oral (n=16). Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) classify gross function, Measurement (GMFM) evalua...