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Method of Studying Palatal Fusion using Static Organ Culture
Published on: September 19, 2015
[A preliminary study on speech therapy for adult cleft palate patients]
Guo-min Wang1, Li-ping Jiang, Yi-lai Wu
1Therapy and Research Center of Cleft Lip and Palate, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai 200011, China.
Objective:
To study speech feature and treatment of adult with misarticulation by review 20 patients' clinical information.
Methods:
20 adult patients (10 male, 10 female, age ranging from 20 to 38 years, mean age 20.35 years) with misarticulation were available for this study. All received specialized examination, Chinese speech intelligibility test and blowing test before speech treatment, 17 cases underwent posterior pharyngeal flap operation before speech treatment. Speech treatment included audio discrimination, behaviour training, lip phone training, aspirates and fricatives training, tongue lolling out, comprehensive training, et al.
Results:
All cases were restored normal speech approximately after speech treatment, consonants loss and hypernasality of some patients totally disappeared. But there were some complications in speech treatment of 4 cases.
Conclusion:
The outcome of appropriate adult speech treatment was satisfactory, though adult speech treatment was more difficult than child's.