A Movable Bulb Appliance to Assist in Palatopharyngeal Closure

Fletcher, Samuel G.; Haskins, Richard C.; Bosma, James F.

doi:10.1044/jshd.2503.249

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…One strives to challenge the pharynx to compensate (Rosen and Bzoch, 1958;Blakeley, 1960;Fletcher et al, 1960)~ for the obturator reductions but not to threaten palato-pharyngeal closure so much that muscles give up and relax back to their pre-oral speech position. The theoretical goal of such a program, although only achieved in about twenty per cent of the Oregon cases to date, is to gradually reduce the obturator out of the mouth, leaving a completely compensated group of palatopharyngeal muscles (Blakeley, 1960).…”

Section: I35mentioning

confidence: 98%

The Rationale for a Temporary Speech Prosthesis in Palatal Insufficiency

Blakeley

1969

Int J Lang Commun Disord

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

FOR the speech clinician who is experienced in the evaluation of children with repaired cleft palate it is not difficult to determine that a child's palate is inappropriate in movement and/or length for adequate voice and articulation development. A child evaluated at two, two-and-a-half, and three years of age will generally have given enough speech clues for the clinician to make such a judgement. No x-ray studies need be required to make this determination, only the trained ear of the clinician and his observations.The clinician has only to listen for the early plosives /p, b, t, d, k, g/. They are characteristically either present and strong, present and weak, substituted for by glottal stops, or produced in association with glottal stops. There is no necessity that plosives be used in the proper positions, only that they be present. Even the child with delayed speech may exhibit these sounds in his babbling if palatopharyngeal function is reasonably adequate. Here, it should be made very clear to the reader that current palato-pharyngeal function for speech is being assessed.Future adequacy is not a question at this point. Our interest here is that function

show abstract

Section: I35mentioning

confidence: 98%