Intensive speech therapy program in patients with cleft lip and palate

• Grant number: 14/25510-4
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): April 01, 2015
• Effective date (End): November 21, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Cooperation agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal researcher: Maria Inês Pegoraro Krook
• Grantee: Gabriela Zuin Ferreira
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru (FOB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Bauru , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/01047-1 - Long time average spectrum and nasometric analysis of cleft palate speech after intensive speech-therapy program with individuals with cleft lip and palate, BE.EP.DR

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

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

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. Web of Science Citations: 0.