PROMPT to improve speech motor abilities in children with cerebral palsy: a wait-list control group trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with cerebral palsy (CP) often have communication impairments, including speech altered intelligibility. Multiple levels of disrupted speech have been reported in CP, which negatively impact on participation and quality of life, with increase of care needs. Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) is an option, with debated benefits and limitations, in particular for its functional use. This is supported by a substantial lack of defined evidences in favor of direct speech articulation intervention in CP. Motor learning-based interventions are effective in CP and are the basis of speech motor interventions such as PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets). The PROMPT speech motor treatment provides tactile-kinesthetic inputs to facilit

SUBMITTER: Fiori S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9258135 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature