INTENSIVE SPEECH THERAPY PROGRAM IN PATIENTS WITH CLEFT LIP AND PALATE

• Grant number: 15/11312-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2016
• End date: July 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Maria Inês Pegoraro Krook
• Grantee: Maria Inês Pegoraro Krook
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru (FOB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Bauru , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Bauru

Abstract

Introduction: Many children with speech disorders resulting from cleft lip and palate remain isolated because of their inability to communicate. Speech therapy is necessary to prevent or eliminate the speech disorders resulting from the velopharyngeal dysfunction in individuals with cleft lip and palate. Objective:To describe an Intensive Therapy Program (ITP) for treatment of speech disorders resulting from cleft palate and compare the results of speech of patients before and after the ITP. Material and Methods: It will be selected patients with velopharyngeal dysfunction for learning error in the use of the velopharyngeal mechanism for speech, of both genders, with minimal age of 16. The ITP will be held within 45 sessions, divided into 5 phases: clinical speech evaluation and nasometry pre-therapy (phase 1); speech therapy to eliminate compensatory articulation (phase 2); elimination of hypernasality (phase 3); automatization of the target sound in spontaneous speech (phase 4), and clinical speech evaluation and nasometry post-therapy (phase 5). (AU)

Scientific publications

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FERREIRA, GABRIELA ZUIN; BRESSMANN, TIM; RILLO DUTKA, JENNIFER DE CASSIA; WHITAKER, MELINA EVANGELISTA; DE BOER, GILLIAN; DE CASTRO MARINO, VIVIANE CRISTINA; PEGORARO-KROOK, MARIA INES. Analysis of oral-nasal balance after intensive speech therapy combined with speech bulb in speakers with cleft palate and hypernasality. JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS, v. 85, MAY-JUN 2020. (15/11312-9, 14/25510-4, 17/01047-1)