Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-08-10T12:08:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ANA CLÁUDIA MAGALHÃES MATOS.pdf: 3267899 bytes, checksum: 2d2b25e1956255ea5beaaf63fb6ba19e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T12:08:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANA CLÁUDIA MAGALHÃES MATOS.pdf: 3267899 bytes, checksum: 2d2b25e1956255ea5beaaf63fb6ba19e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-10 / Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a common disorder in people that survived a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). It is a disability that contributes to the lack of functionality and dependency to eat. These eating limitations lead to clinical risks and adaptation needs to deal with the restrictions. The objective of the present dissertation, a qualitative case study, was to describe the experience of living with oropharyngeal dysphagia after a CVA from the patients‟ and their relative caregivers‟ perspectives. The dissertation reports seven cases of people who survived a CVA; these patients live in the southwest of Bahia and were discharged from hospital presenting signs and symptoms of dysphagia between October 2015 and July 2016. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews at the patients‟ homes. Five patients and seven relative caregivers were interviewed individually or in pairs. By applying an interpretative thematic analysis, the following thematic topics were identified: changes in preparing, handling and offering food; difficulties and feelings of the patients and relative caregivers before dysphagia; and social support. Confrontation of the signs and symptoms of dysphagia occurred with little orientation, mainly in the transition from hospital to home care, and little formal support. It was observed that the signs and symptoms of this disorder, such as cough and choking, are frequent, especially during the postdischarge period, and cause dissatisfaction and reveal a lack of preparation to deal with difficulties. The relative caregivers that did not receive orientations and help to manage the eating routine of the patients faced a greater difficulty to prepare, handle and offer food. The results show the importance of interdisciplinary team work, mainly to prepare the family for hospital discharge, and the relatives‟ commitment in the care process regarding the application of educational practices and training to achieve humanized care and a higher quality of life for patients. In addition to these measures, the findings confirm the need for speech therapy interventions focused on the evaluation of patients with CVA and follow-up of their eating patterns throughout the rehabilitation process. / A disfagia orofaríngea é um distúrbio observado frequentemente em pessoas que sobrevivem ao acidente vascular cerebral (AVC). Trata-se de uma incapacidade que contribui para a perda da funcionalidade e da independência para se alimentar. As limitações para a alimentação levam a riscos clínicos e necessidades de adaptação para enfrentar as dificuldades existentes. O objetivo desta pesquisa, do tipo estudo de caso qualitativo, foi descrever a experiência de vivenciar a disfagia orofaríngea após o acidente vascular cerebral na perspectiva do paciente e de cuidadores familiares. Foram descritos os casos de sete sobreviventes ao AVC, residentes em um município do Sudoeste da Bahia e que receberam alta hospitalar com sinais e sintomas de disfagia, no período de outubro de 2015 a julho de 2016. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas em domicílio. Foram entrevistados cinco pacientes e sete cuidadores familiares, de modo individual, ou em díades. Por meio da análise temática interpretativa, foram identificados os seguintes núcleos temáticos: mudanças no preparo, manejo e oferta da dieta; dificuldades e sentimentos dos pacientes e cuidadores familiares no enfrentamento da disfagia e o apoio social. O enfrentamento dos sinais e sintomas da disfagia ocorreu com poucas orientações, principalmente no processo de transição do cuidado hospitalar para o domicílio, e pouco apoio formal. Observou-se que os sinais e sintomas deste distúrbio como tosse e engasgos são frequentes, sobretudo na fase pós alta hospitalar, e trazem sentimentos de insatisfação, bem como demonstram o despreparo dos cuidadores para lidar com as dificuldades. Os cuidadores familiares que não tiveram orientações e auxílios nas condutas durante alimentação se depararam com maior dificuldade no preparo, manejo e oferta da dieta. Os resultados evidenciam, além da necessidade de intervenções fonoaudiológicas focadas na avaliação do paciente com AVC e no acompanhamento de seu padrão de alimentação no decorrer do processo de reabilitação, a importância da atuação de equipes interdisciplinares, principalmente no preparo para alta hospitalar, e do envolvimento da família no processo do cuidar, com vistas ao desenvolvimento de ações educativas e treinamento prático para a busca constante da humanização e melhor qualidade de vida.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:12:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LUANA ALMEIDA MAGALHAES.pdf: 416185 bytes, checksum: 2da39944683577080e3ca1273a8fc232 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-28 / This study deals with the description of a home care dysphagic patient case study. The aim was to demonstrate the relevance of the psychic aspects in the swallowing disorders treatment, searching to understand why the dysphagic symptoms became recurrent since in the organic-functionary point of view, the patient had no more disorders. This is a descriptive research done through clinic-qualitative method, by a unique, exemplary or emblematic clinical case study of an 82 years old patient (named as Dona Laura) with stroke that caused dysphagia, paresthesia and paresis of the left facial side, beyond language expression disorder and dysarthria. The data had been collected between June 2004 and December 2005, and the clinical material consisted of the therapies memories analysis, made by weekly registers, written in a narrative form. The stroke brought fragility to the patient subjectivity and made it difficult to her support the familiar relations, as well as her routines. The opening of the therapist listening to this suffering situation allowed the patient to be dislocated from the organic rehabilitation into the direction of a ressubjectivation, meaning a construction of a new subjective profile, more satisfactory in the current relationary conditions of patient s life. The research demonstrated the relevance of considering the body in the dysphagia treatment, not only on its organic face, but also on its symbolical and affective spheres / A dissertação trata da descrição de um caso clínico de paciente disfágica atendida em domicílio. O objetivo foi demonstrar a relevância dos aspectos psíquicos na reabilitação fonoaudiológica dos transtornos de deglutição, buscando entender por que os sintomas disfágicos se tornaram recorrentes mesmo que, do ponto de vista orgânico-funcional, a paciente não mais possuísse alteração alimentar. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva, realizada a partir do método clínico-qualitativo, por meio de estudo de caso clínico único, exemplar ou emblemático. O caso clínico relatado nesta pesquisa é de uma paciente de 82 anos (nomeada como Dona Laura), que foi acometida por um Acidente Vascular Encefálico Isquêmico e apresentava quadro de disfagia e de parestesia e paresia facial à esquerda, além de alteração na expressão da linguagem e disartrofonia. Os dados para reflexão foram coletados no período de junho de 2004 a dezembro de 2005, e o material clínico constituiu-se da análise das memórias dos atendimentos e dos registros semanais, escritos em forma de narrativa após os atendimentos realizados. O advento do AVE fragilizou subjetivamente a paciente e isso dificultou tanto as relações familiares quanto suas rotinas. A abertura da escuta da terapeuta para as angústias advindas desta situação permitiu que a paciente pudesse se deslocar a partir da reabilitação orgânica em direção à uma ressubjetivação, ou seja, à construção de um novo perfil subjetivo, mais satisfatório em relação às condições atuais de vida e relacionais da paciente. A pesquisa demonstrou a relevância de se considerar o corpo na reabilitação fonoaudiológica das disfagias, não apenas por sua face orgânica, mas nas esferas simbólica e afetiva

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Comparar e caracterizar, por intermédio dos protocolos de avaliação da deglutição, os achados fonoaudiológicos na fase preparatória oral e oral da deglutição nos pacientes avaliados nos dois grupos de doenças (DM/PM e ES). Foram identificados 80 pacientes com diagnóstico de dermatopolimiosite e esclerose sistêmica, de ambos os sexos, atendidos no ambulatório de Colagenoses do serviço de Reumatologia do Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto (HUPE-UERJ). Foram excluídos os indivíduos abaixo de 18 anos e acima de 60 anos (24) e com outras doenças e/ ou comorbidades. Dos 56 pacientes restantes, 73,2% (41) apresentavam ES e 26,8% (15) DM/PM. Após a assinatura do termo de consentimento livre e esclarecido, os indivíduos foram submetidos à avaliação clínica estrutural e funcional da deglutição pelo pesquisador, que é fonoaudiólogo. O estudo revelou elevada prevalência de alterações oromiofuncionais e da deglutição na fase preparatória oral e oral propriamente dita nos pacientes com ES para a consistência sólida, que geram disfagia oral e alta, e não somente uma disfagia baixa como tem sido apresentado na literatura médica. O estudo reforçou que as mulheres são as mais acometidas pelas doenças autoimunes e que os homens são em menor número. O fonoaudiólogo deve ser parte integrante da equipe interdisciplinar que atende esses pacientes. / Compare and Characterize by means of evaluation protocols of swallowing, speech-language findings in oral and oral preparatory phase of swallowing in patients evaluated in both groups of diseases (DM / PM and SS). We identified 80 patients with dermatomyositis and systemic sclerosis, of both sexes, Collagen outpatient clinic of the Rheumatology Service of Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto (HUPE-UERJ). We excluded individuals below 18 years and above 60 years (24) and other diseases and / or comorbidities. Of the 56 remaining patients, 73.2% (41) had SS and 26.8% (15) DM / PM. After signing an informed consent, subjects underwent structural and functional clinical assessment of swallowing, the researcher who is a speech and audiologist therapist. The study revealed high prevalence of oromiofunctionals and oral phase swallowing in patients with SS to solid food dysphagia and oral generating not only a high and low dysphagia as has been shown in medical literature. The study reinforced that women are more affected by autoimmune diseases, and that men are fewer. The speech and audiology therapist must be part of the interdisciplinary team that deals with these patients

Introdução: Recém- nascidos a termo nascem com a habilidade de coordenar as funções de sucção- deglutição- respiração. Recém-nascidos pré-termo não apresentam essa habilidade, consequentemente, necessitam de alimentação por sonda e podem apresentar dificuldade na transição da alimentação por sonda para via oral. O objetivo desse estudo foi comparar o padrão de coordenação sucção-deglutição-respiração de recém-nascidos a termo em aleitamento materno exclusivo e recém-nascidos pré-termo na transição da alimentação por sonda para a via oral com mamadeira. Métodos: Foram avaliados 64 recém-nascidos (32 recém-nascidos pré-termo e 32 recém-nascidos a termo) internados na UTI Neonatal e Alojamento Conjunto do Hospital Fêmina de Porto Alegre. Os recém-nascidos a termo foram avaliados durante as primeiras 48horas de vida e os recém-nascidos pré-termo foram avaliados no início da alimentação por via oral após período de alimentação por sonda orogástrica. O equipamento utilizado na ausculta cervical digital era composto por um detector acústico e por um pré-amplificador com filtro conectados a um computador Coreo 2 Duo. O microfone foi fixado com fita adesiva no pescoço do recém-nascido para captar os sinais da sucção/deglutição durante a alimentação. Três sinais de 30 segundos foram obtidos de cada RN e uma média foi obtida para os seguintes parâmetros: total de “suck-swallow signal” (SSS); duração total dos SSS; total de pausas para respirar >2,5 segundos; duração total das pausas. Os dados dos sinais dos sons da deglutição gravados foram analisados visual e auditivamente pelo Software Raven versão 1.1 Resultados: Os resultados mostraram que houve diferença estatisticamente significante para o parâmetro “duração total dos SSS”, mostrando que o tempo envolvido na sucção/deglutição é maior para os recém-nascidos pré-termo. Em relação ao parâmetro “duração total das pausas”, observou-se um tempo maior para os recém-nascidos a termo. O parâmetro “número de pausas” que indica a quantidade de momentos que o recém-nascido apresenta pausa para respirar durante a mamada no período de gravação também foi significativamente maior para os recém-nascidos a termo em comparação aos recém-nascidos pré-termo. Conclusão: Demonstramos que a ausculta cervical digital é um exame de fácil execução e minimamente invasivo na avaliação da coordenação sucção-deglutição-respiração em recém-nascidos a termo e pré-termo. Os recém-nascidos a termo com aleitamento materno durante os primeiros dias de vida apresentaram pausas para respirar mais prolongadas durante o processo de sucção-deglutiçãorespiração em comparação aos recém-nascidos pré-termo. Isso pode refletir o estágio do desenvolvimento do padrão de maturidade de processo de deglutição. / Background: Fullterm newborn are born with the ability to coordinate the functions of sucking, swallowing and breathing. Preterm infants may not have this ability, therefore, may require tube feeding and may have difficulty in the transition from tube feeding to oral feeding. The aim of this study was to compare the coordination pattern of suck, swallow and breathing in fullterm newborn exclusively breastfed and preterm newborn at the transition from tube feeding to oral bottle feeding . Methods: 64 newborn (32 preterm and 32 fullterm) admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Rooming-in of Femina Hospital of Porto Alegre. Fullterms were evaluated during the first 48 hours of life and preterms were assessed at the beginning of oral feeding after feeding period by orogastric tube. The equipment used in digital cervical auscultation included an acoustic detector and a preamplifier with filter connected to a computer 2 Duo Core. The microphone was fixed with tape on the neck of the newborn to capture the signals of suck / swallow during feeding. Three signals of 30 seconds were obtained from each newborn and an average was obtained for the following parameters: total number of "suck-swallow signal" (SSS); total duration of the SSS; total number of pauses> 2.5 seconds and total duration of pauses and . Signs of swallowing sounds recorded were analyzed visually and audibly by Raven Software version 1.1 Results: The results showed statistically significant differences for the parameter "total duration of the SSS," showing that the time involved in suction / swallowing is greater for preterms. As for the parameter "total duration of pauses," there was more time spent by fullterms. The parameter "number of pauses" that indicates the amount of times that newborn have respiratory pause during feeding in the recording period was also significantly higher for fullterms when compared with preterms. Conclusion: We demonstrated that digital cervical auscultation is a minimally invasive, feasible, and easy-to-perfom tool for evaluation of suck-swallowbreathing coordination in newborn. The fullterm infants with breastfeeding within the first days of life had prolonged respiratory pauses during the process of sucking, swallowing and breathing compared to preterms. This may reflect the stage of development of the natural maturity process of swallowing.

L'objectif de cette thèse est l'étude des interactions mécaniques entre la langue et le palais dans la production de parole et la déglutition. Cette interaction est cruciale car elle détermine la morphologie de la langue et son évolution dans le temps avant et après les contacts. Elle ne peut cependant pas être étudiée avec des approches cinématiques conventionnelles, car l'amplitude des mouvements est trop faible. La première partie de la thèse est consacrée à la conception d'un dispositif expérimental permettant de mesurer ces interactions sans perturber l'appareil vocal. La première particularité est que le dispositif est utilisé sur des patients édentés appareillés. Nous utilisons un duplicata de la prothèse complète maxillaire pour insérer des capteurs miniatures à jauges de contrainte dont les caractéristiques de réponse sont optimisées et qui permettent de mesurer la pression mécanique exercée par la langue sur le palais. La seconde particularité est qu’il existe une procédure d'étalonnage, associée aux capteurs, qui utilise une Colonne d’Eau Sèche. Elle applique une pression sur le capteur via une membrane en latex déformable, capable de simuler le comportement visco-élastique de la langue sur le palais. La deuxième partie de la thèse décrit le protocole de recherche clinique visant à (1) caractériser l'interaction langue-palais au cours de la prononciation et de la déglutition normales sur des individus édentés que nous considérons adaptés à leur prothèse complète (Cohorte 1), (2) observer l'adaptation dans une étude longitudinale des patients édentés nouvellement appareillés (Cohorte 2). Ce projet comprend, pour les deux cohortes, la description des objectifs, le protocole expérimental, la description fine des paramètres pertinents et la méthode statistique de traitement des données. Toutefois, le processus de rédaction et de soumission de ce protocole à un Comité de Protection des Personnes (CPP) a été plus long que prévu et l’étude clinique n’a pu être menée dans le cadre de cette thèse. C’est pourquoi, dans la troisième partie de la thèse, nous avons utilisé les données enregistrées dans l’étude de faisabilité, auprès d'un adulte édenté francophone. Les résultats montrent que notre dispositif permet d'explorer des hypothèses théoriques cruciales dans la parole comme l'existence de cibles virtuelles au-dessus du palais ou le rôle du palais dans la mise en forme du conduit aérien des consonnes fricatives. Les résultats des données enregistrées lors de la déglutition sont moins clairs, mais l'enchaînement temporel précis des contacts peut être décrit, ce qui permet de préciser comment les mouvements ondulatoires de la langue pendant la phase orale de la déglutition exploitent les contacts avec le palais. Les retombées cliniques de cette thèse permettent une meilleure connaissance du rôle fonctionnel des prothèses complètes et d’envisager la conception de prothèses qui seraient adaptées aux spécificités de chaque patient, notamment pour la rééducation des sujets traités chirurgicalement après des cancers de la langue, dans le cadre des taches de production de parole et de déglutition / The aim of the thesis is the study of the mechanical interaction between tongue and palate in speech production and swallowing. This interaction is crucial since it determines the shape of the tongue and its time evolution before and after contacts occur. Yet it cannot be studied with conventional kinematic approaches, since magnitude of movements is too small. The first part of the thesis was devoted to the design of an experimental setup to measure this interaction without perturbing the vocal tract. The first specificity is that the setup is used on subjects who are edentulous and wear a complete denture. We use a duplicate of the complete denture to insert miniature strain gauge sensors with enhanced response characteristics, that enable the measure of the mechanical pressure exerted by the tongue in different locations of the palate, without altering the shape of the palatal arch. The second specificity is that the calibration procedure uses a Dried Water Column (DWC) that applies pressure on the sensor via a deformable latex membrane, that simulates the way tongue touches the palate. The second part of the thesis enabled the design of an experimental protocol aiming at (1) providing a characterization of the tongue-palate interaction in normal speech production and swallowing based on edentulous subjects whom we consider to have adapted to their complete denture (cohort 1), (2) observing the adaptation process in a longitudinal study of edentulous subjects who are new users of complete denture (cohort 2). This work includes for two cohorts the design of the subject inclusion criteria, the motor tasks and the statistical method for the data analysis. However, unforeseen long delays were faced in the application process for the ethical approval and no data were collected in this context. Hence the third part of the thesis used data recorded in our most recent pilot study, with a French speaking edentulous adult. It is shown that our setup makes possible to tackle crucial theoretical questions in speech production such as the existence of virtual targets above the palate in stops or the role of the palate in the air channel shaping in fricatives. Results of swallowing tasks are less clear, but it is shown that precise time sequencing of contacts can be described, making possible the specification of how the ondulatory movements of the tongue in the oral phase of swallowing takes advantage of palatal contacts. In conclusion implications of this thesis are presented for a functional assessment of complete dentures, and the design of dentures that would be adapted to each subject’s specificities

<p><b>Aims</b></p><p>The aims of the thesis were to validate investigation instruments for stroke patients with dysphagia, and to improve oropharyngeal dysphagia therapies.</p><p><b>Methods/Results</b></p><p>A Lip Force Meter, LF 100, affirmed excellent intra- and inter-reliability, sensitivity and specificity. Controls had significantly stronger lip force (LF) and swallowing capacity (SC) than stroke patients. A normal lower limit of LF was set to 15 Newton. Dysphagia symptoms improved in 7 stroke patients after a 5-week sensorimotor stimulation therapy comprising manual body and facial regulation in combination with palatal plate application. Impaired LF and impaired SC were parallel phenomena in 22 acute stroke patients and did not differ regardless of presence or absence of facial palsy. LF and SC improved and were parallel phenomena in 30 stroke patients and did not differ regardless of presence or absence of facial palsy, time lag between stroke attack and start of treatment, or age. SC was normalized in 19 of 30 dysphagia patients after a 5-8-week daily lip muscle self-training with an oral screen. </p><p><b>Conclusions</b></p><p>LF100 is an appropriate and reliable instrument for measuring lip force. Dysphagia improvement, by body and facial sensorimotor stimulation in combination with palatal plate application, or by training with an oral screen is excellent examples of brain plasticity and cortical reorganisation. . Swallowing capacity and lip force in stroke patients are parallel phenomena. A sub clinical facial paresis seems to be present in most stroke patients. Training with an oral screen can improve LF and SC in stroke patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia. </p>

<b>Aims</b> The aims of the thesis were to validate investigation instruments for stroke patients with dysphagia, and to improve oropharyngeal dysphagia therapies. <b>Methods/Results</b> A Lip Force Meter, LF 100, affirmed excellent intra- and inter-reliability, sensitivity and specificity. Controls had significantly stronger lip force (LF) and swallowing capacity (SC) than stroke patients. A normal lower limit of LF was set to 15 Newton. Dysphagia symptoms improved in 7 stroke patients after a 5-week sensorimotor stimulation therapy comprising manual body and facial regulation in combination with palatal plate application. Impaired LF and impaired SC were parallel phenomena in 22 acute stroke patients and did not differ regardless of presence or absence of facial palsy. LF and SC improved and were parallel phenomena in 30 stroke patients and did not differ regardless of presence or absence of facial palsy, time lag between stroke attack and start of treatment, or age. SC was normalized in 19 of 30 dysphagia patients after a 5-8-week daily lip muscle self-training with an oral screen. <b>Conclusions</b> LF100 is an appropriate and reliable instrument for measuring lip force. Dysphagia improvement, by body and facial sensorimotor stimulation in combination with palatal plate application, or by training with an oral screen is excellent examples of brain plasticity and cortical reorganisation. . Swallowing capacity and lip force in stroke patients are parallel phenomena. A sub clinical facial paresis seems to be present in most stroke patients. Training with an oral screen can improve LF and SC in stroke patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia.

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Normalt åldrande innebär förändringar hos individen som kan påverka tal, språk och sväljning. Ökad känslighet för inre och yttre påverkan hos den åldrande individen samt sjukdomsbild kan skapa problematik, vilken kan ge upphov till svårigheter med tal, språk och/eller sväljning, som i sin tur påverkar den upplevda livskvaliteten. Geriatriska patienter karaktäriseras av nedsatt funktionsnivå och kroniska sjukdomar, därför ställs krav på specialkompetens för vård och rehabilitering av dessa patienter. Syftet med föreliggande studie var att genom screening undersöka förekomst av tal-, språk- och sväljsvårigheter på geriatriska avdelningar i två städer i södra Sverige. Därtill undersöktes även orofacial påverkan och hälsorelaterad livskvalitet. Totalt 42 patienter från geriatriska avdelningar med inriktningarna allmängeriatrik, strokerehabilitering och ortopedi deltog. Screeninginstrument som användes var Nordiskt Orofacialt Test – Screening (NOT-S) för screening av orofaciala funktioner. Screening av tal baserades på delar ur NOT-S samt talade delar ur språklig screening. Delar ur Neurolingvistisk Afasi-undersökning (A-ning) valdes för screening av språk och Standardised Swallowing Assessment (SSA) användes för klinisk undersökning av sväljning. Hälsoenkäten the Short Form – 12 (SF-12) användes för skattning av hälsorelaterad livskvalitet. Identifierade svårigheter i patientgruppen var talsvårigheter hos 33 % (14 av 42), samt 40 % (16 av 40) och 37 % (15 av 41) språkliga svårigheter respektive sväljsvårigheter. Bland deltagarna hade 64 % svårigheter med en eller flera av de undersökta funktionerna. Förekomst av dessa svårigheter hade signifikant samband med nedsatt orofacial funktion. Lågt skattad hälsorelaterad livskvalitet hade signifikant samband med språkliga svårigheter och med orofacial dysfunktion. / Changes occur during the normal ageing process that can interfere with speech-, language- and swallowing functions. An increased occurrence of diseases increases the frailty in the ageing individual and may cause disordered speech, language and/or swallowing, in which case the health related quality of life may be negatively affected. The geriatric population is characterized by functional impairment and chronic diseases. This therefore poses special demands on specialist care and rehabilitation of these patients. The aim of this study was to examine the occurrence of speech, language and swallowing disorders in geriatric wards in two cities in the southern part ofSwedenusing screening. The orofacial influence on these functions and health related quality of life were also examined. In total 42 patients participated, from geriatric wards with general, stroke rehabilitation and orthopedic specialty. The instruments used for screening of orofacial functions was the Nordic Orofacial Test – Screening (NOT-S) and perceptual parameters for screening of speech based on speech parts from NOT-S and speech production from Neurolingvistisk Afasi-undersökning (A-ning). Parts of A-ning were also used for screening of language. Standardised Swallowing Assessment (SSA) was used for clinical examination of swallowing. The Short Form – 12 Health Survey (SF-12) was used to estimate the health related quality of life. Results showed that 33 % (14 of 42) had difficulties with speech, 40 % (16 of 40) and 37 % (15 of 41) showed difficulties with language and swallowing respectively. Of the participants, 64 % had difficulties with one or more of the examined functions. Occurrence of these difficulties associated significantly with impaired orofacial function. Language difficulties were associated with decreased mental health status and orofacial dysfunction with decreased physical health status, measured with the SF-12.

Dans le cadre de cette recherche sur l'émergence de la parole auprès d'enfants paralysés cérébraux, ayant comme pathologie des troubles moteurs, nous avons situé notre démarche épistémologique dans le champ de théories qui permet de comprendre le développement cognitif général, avec le fonctionnement neurobiologique du cerveau et les processus moteurs biomécaniques et sensoriels,impliqués dans la production de parole. Dans notre étude, nous avons émis l'hypothèse de l'existence d'une corrélation entre le développement de la déglutition-mastication et l'émergence de la parole. Sous-jacents à cette corrélation, serait le développement du contrôle de la mandibule, ainsi que celui des articulateurs de la sphère oro-faciale (langue, lèvres, velum, épiglotte). Les résultats expérimentaux principaux montrent que malgré leurs pathologies, ces enfants suivent les tendances préférentielles observées chez les tous enfants « valides », avec la production d'un nouveau patron associatif qui apparaît, dont les sons labiaux et coronaux. En outre, notre étude indique que la saisie et la prise alimentaire, à travers sa diversité, ainsi que sa texture, permettraient l'évolution du développement pré-linguistique et linguistique chez ces enfants. Par ailleurs, nous pouvons souligner que les enfants présentant des troubles de l'oralité alimentaire, correspondant au trouble de l'oralité primaire, auront tendance à développer des troubles de l'oralité secondaire qui engendreront des troubles de la parole. / In this research on the emergence of speech among children with cerebral palsy, whose pathology is motor disorders, our epistemological approach lies within theories that help to understand general cognitive development, based on the neurobiological functioning of the brain, and also on motor biomechanical and sensory processes involved in speech production. ln our study, we hypothesized the existence of a correlation between the development of swallowing-mastication and the emergence of speech. Underlying this correlation would be the development of control of the mandible, as well as that of the articulators of the orofacial sphere (tongue, lips, velum and epiglottis). The main experimental results show that despite their pathologies, these children follow preferential trends observed in all "valid" children, with the production of a new associative pattern that appears, including labial and coronal sounds. ln addition, our study indicates that grasping and food intake, through ils diversity, as well as its texture, would favour the development of prelinguistic and linguistic maturity in these children. Moreover, we posit that children with eating disorders, corresponding to primary eating disorders, will tend to develop secondary eating disorders that will lead to speech disorders.