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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

Nonverbal Oro-Motor Exercises: Do They Really Work for Phonoarticulatory Difficulties?

Pablo Parra-López, Marina Olmos-Soria, Ana V Valero-García

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Pablo Parra-LópezDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
Marina Olmos-SoriaDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
Ana V Valero-GarcíaDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.

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Abstract

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.

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Articulation DisordersSpeech TherapyChild, PreschoolExercise TherapyHumansPhoneticsTonguearticulation disorderchildhoodintervention in difficulties in articulationnonverbal oro-motor exercisesphonetic disorderpractice-based evidence

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PMCPMC9104859

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