Nonverbal Oro-Motor Exercises
Do They Really Work for Phonoarticulatory Difficulties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15501874 |
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| Authors | Pablo Parra-López (Universidad de Murcia, corresponding author), Marina Olmos-Soria (Universidad de Murcia), Ana Vanesa Valero-García (Universidad de Murcia) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 5459-5459 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph19095459 |
| PMID | 35564854 |
| OpenAlex | W4225136962 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Articulation disorders are deficiencies in the realization of speech sounds unrelated to organic or neurological disorders. Over the last decade, there has been a debate on the efficiency of non-verbal oro-motor exercises, which are orofacial movements programmed and organized in an intentional and coordinated way to control lips, tongue, and soft palate muscles. Of the 122 children evaluated, 52 presented articulatory difficulties. An intervention with nonverbal oro-motor exercises was applied, and children were again assessed following treatment. The results showed no differences between the experimental and control groups, either in the number of sounds that improved after this period or in the severity of difficulties (we categorized those with articulation difficulties in two to six sounds as 'medium' and those with difficulties in articulating more than seven sounds as 'severe'). These results indicated that nonverbal oro-motor exercises alone are not efficient for intervention in difficulties in the realization of sounds in 4-year-old children
Cognitive psychology · Medical emergency · Nonverbal communication · Poison control · Work (physics · Communication · Engineering · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
| Highly cited | No |
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