Caracterización de las compensaciones articulatorias del habla con pacientes con labio paladar fisurado que asisten a la Fundación Gracias a Dios un Niño Sonríe - 2018B

Abstract

The articulatory compensations are speech modifications that are present in cleft palate, high and low pressure phonemes are altered in this pathology. This investigation was developed under the Gracias A Dios Un Niño Sonríe Foundation’s authorization, who’s supported by Smile Train, an international organization that provides a solution to cleft palate’s burden by trainings, funding and other resources that are necessary such as operation and free rehabilitation processes. Objective: The aim of this study is to do the characterization of the compensations present in cleft palate in patients who assisted to Gracias A Dios Un Niño Sonríe Foundation on 2018 B period. Method: This was a transversal quantitative descriptive study. The total of participants was 17, female and masculine gender, 7 years older. Data was recollected, first, considering the clinical history’s information that was registered at the beginning, then the voice recording was registered, which allow to develop a more univariate and bivariate results. Results: The most affected phonemes in the participants was the high-pressure ones, considering that the compensations are present on absolute initial position and intervocalic position. It was evidenced major prevalence of nasal emissions and fricatives. Conclusion: Articulatory compensations are a speech phenomenon that is consequent to a velopalatine dysglossia and its diagnose constitution is vinculated to phonetic-phonological disorders.