Search results for "Speech Therapy"

Auditory Training in Deaf Children

2010

Deaf children are, earlier than in the past, identified and can benefit of new and highperformance devices (as cochlear implants or digital hearing aids). However, a great variability in their spoken language skills is observed (12) and first attributable to the well-known effect of the age of auditory rehabilitation (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22). The second assessment concerns the way speech disorders are treated: new technologies are not linked to any change in the way speech therapy is delivered, particularly in the field of auditory training. Auditory training constitutes an important part of the speech therapy addressed to the deaf children and must start as soon as possible. The go…

Factors determining the efficiency of logopaedic care of children in Poland.

2000

The purpose of this article is to establish factors which determine the efficiency of the system of care provided to children with speech disorders attending regular schools and kindergartens. The analysis was made using Poland as an example, which, similar to other countries, has made some achievements in this matter. Although Poland has had an institutionalised care system for children with speech development anomalies for 30 years, the problem of speech disorders is still very difficult to solve. Due to the large scale of the phenomenon among Polish children, this problem can be defined as a social problem in this country. The above-described situation makes it necessary to search for me…

Analysis of the specific common competences of the Degree Courses in Speech Therapy and on the ability to apply in the didactic systems

2020

Law 11 January 2018 n. 3 places the attention of the Health Professions on the specific common skills, which must be evident in the didactic systems to protect the Profession. The purpose of this work is to identify which skills are always present among the training objectives of the Degree Courses in Speech Therapy, and which instead become "specific" for our profession. The data analysis was conducted on 27 Degree Courses in Speech Therapy present in Italy, using the portal "Universitaly" and evaluating the SUA cards of the various Degree Courses. The analysis of the data revealed that: basic skills were insufficient for the areas of labor law and corporate organization; transversal skill…

[The importance of socio-cultural factors for the development of speech and language].

2004

Speech treatment in nemaline myopathy: A single-subject experimental study

2020

Abstract Purpose The objective of this work was to verify the efficacy of a treatment based on myofunctional therapy techniques which aimed to improve the tongue strength, precision, and speed of a ten-year-old girl with nemaline myopathy (NM) and the repercussions of this therapy on her speech intelligibility. NM is a rare congenital muscle disorder that causes extreme muscle weakness, especially in the face and neck, as well as severe dysarthria and dysphagia, although this does not affect the nervous system or cognitive development. Method This was a single-subject experimental study which used an interrupted pre- and post-treatment time-series design, and which applied autoregressive in…

Post laryngectomy speech rehabilitation outcome in elderly patients

2013

The aim of our work has been to evaluate the different options of tracheoesophageal voice rehabilitation in over 70-year-old patients, who had undergone laryngectomy, assessing advantages and drawbacks of this method of vocal recovery. A retrospective study has been carried out. This has included 40 subjects, all aged more than 70 years old, who have been referred to tracheoesophageal voice rehabilitation. It has been realized a phonatory fistula between trachea and esophagus with prosthesis positioning by means of a primary puncture in 18 cases and it has been realized a secondary puncture in 22 cases. The results gathered in these patients were compared with data obtained from a group mad…

On aphasia and communicative speech therapy: Once more

1994

Abstract In my paper I tried to emphasize the idea of communication as a process in which one's informative intention is made evident by coded or non-coded verbal and non-verbal means and in co-operation with other interlocutors. Furthermore, I presented some general goals of a communicative speech therapy and then demonstrated what kind of consequences they would have on the study of aphasic communication.

Acoustic, myoelectric, and aerodynamic parameters of euphonic and dysphonic voices: a systematic review of clinical studies

2021

Background: At present, there is no clinical consensus on the concept of normal and dysphonic voices. For many years, the establishment of a consensus on the terminology related to normal and pathological voices has been studied, in order to facilitate the communication between professionals in the field of the voice. Aim: systematically review the literature to compare and learn more precisely the measurable and objective characteristics of the acoustic, aerodynamic and surface electromyographic parameters of the normal and dysphonic voices. Methods: The PRISMA 2020 methodology was used as a review protocol together with the PICO procedure to answer the research question through six databa…

De la atención de los problemas de la audición y lenguaje a la logopedia como disciplina

2015

Las dificultades del lenguaje han estado presentes en el ser humano desde la antigüedad. La sensibilización social e institucional hacia este tipo de trastornos ha mejorado lentamente hasta nuestros días. Ya en la Edad Moderna (siglos XVI al XVIII) se informa de educación de sujetos con problemas de lenguaje. Destaca el trabajo de Pedro Ponce de León como precursor del tratamiento estas dificultades. De forma progresiva, se tomó conciencia de la importancia del tratamiento de las dificultades del lenguaje. En los siglos XIX y XX se produce la institucionalización de la atención a personas con trastornos del lenguaje. La Orientación Educativa atiende tradicionalmente esta problemática. Poste…

Skraban‐Deardorff syndrome: Six new cases of WDR 26 ‐related disease and expansion of the clinical phenotype

2021

International audience; Skraban-Deardorff syndrome (a disease related to variations in the WDR26 gene; OMIM #617616) was first described in a cohort of 15 individuals in 2017. The syndrome comprises intellectual deficiency, severe speech impairment, ataxic gait, seizures, mild hypotonia with feeding difficulties during infancy, and dysmorphic features. Here, we report on six novel heterozygous de novo pathogenic variants in WDR26 in six probands. The patients’ phenotypes were consistent with original publication. One patient displayed marked hypotonia with an abnormal muscle biopsy; this finding warrants further investigation. Gait must be closely monitored, in order to highlight any muscul…