"Eficácia do tratamento fonoaudiológico em síndrome de Down: avaliação eletromiográfica de superfície" / Effectiveness of the oral myofunctional therapy

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The target of this research was to verify the effectiveness of the oral myofunctional therapy in the lips adjustment during the sucking using the surface electromyography in babies with Down syndrome. Five boys and three girls (age between 6 and 10 months) participated of the research and control groups. The difference from each other was the Down syndrome diagnostic. The research had three phases: initial and final assessments (clinical and electromyographic) and therapeutic process (for the research group). The conclusion was that in the clinical assessment there were differences that were not observed in the electromyographic, but the electromyographic data completed the clinical data

ASSUNTO(S)

speech language and hearing sciences myofunctional therapy down syndrome electromyography comportamento de sucÇÃo sÍndrome de down eletromiografia fonoaudiologia facial muscles lactente infant terapia miofuncional mÚsculos faciais sucking behavior

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