Assessment of infant oral sensorimotor and swallowing function

Rogers, Bonnie; Arvedson, Joan C.

doi:10.1002/mrdd.20055

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“…There has been little work to date on how oral motor control develops in children, and much of this has been concentrated on the feeding behaviour of young infants or developmentally disabled children (a selection of recent work includes Fucile et al, 2005;Johnson & Harris, 2004;Mason et al, 2005;Rogers & Arvedson, 2005), with no investigation of any possible link to language development. Some studies purporting to examine oral motor control and language focus on diadochokinesis, the ability to repeat speech syllables as fast as possible, which seems to stray from the definition of nonverbal oral motor skill, and which also has questionable value in diagnosis of oral praxis difficulties (Yaruss & Logan, 2002).…”

Section: Oral Motor Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The development of oral motor control and language

Alcock

2006

Downs Syndr. Res. Pract.

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-Motor control has long been associated with language skill, in deficits, both acquired and developmental, and in typical development. Most evidence comes from limb praxis however; the link between oral motor control and speech and language has been neglected, despite the fact that most language users talk with their mouths. Oral motor control is affected in a variety of developmental disorders, including Down syndrome. However, its development is poorly understood. We investigated oral motor control in three groups: adults with acquired aphasia, individuals with developmental dysphasia, and typically developing children. In individuals with speech and language difficulties, oral motor control was impaired. More complex movements and sets of movements were even harder for individuals with language impairments. In typically developing children (21-24 months), oral motor control was found to be related to language skills. In both studies, a closer relationship was found between language and complex oral movements than simple oral movements. This relationship remained when the effect of overall cognitive ability was removed. Children who were poor at oral movements were not good at language, although children who were good at oral movements could fall anywhere on the distribution of language abilities. Oral motor skills may be a necessary precursor for language skills.Keywords: oral motor control, language development, developmental language disorders, gesture Evidence for a link between motor control and language In examining the relationship between motor control and language development and disorders, there is a contrast between the large amount that is known about limb motor control and the small amount that is known about oral motor control. For example, it has long been known that the first stages of language development occur in parallel with the first stages of gesture development, and that children whose first gestures are earlier than average usually also say their first words earlier than average (Bates et al., 1979). Recent data also show that children who are late in the onset of both spontaneous communicative gesture and spoken language are more likely to remain delayed than those who start making communicative gestures at a typical age but whose speech is also delayed (Thal et al., 1997). There is also a strong association between limb motor control difficulties and language impairment (Hill, 2001), which appear to share a common genetic basis (Bishop, 2002). This imbalance in research exists despite the fact that the majority of language users speak, rather than sign. We now turn to work on the development of oral motor skills. Oral motor developmentThere has been little work to date on how oral motor control develops in children, and much of this has been concentrated on the feeding behaviour of young infants or developmentally disabled children (a selection of recent work includes Fucile et al., 2005;Johnson & Harris, 2004;Mason et al., 2005;Rogers & Arvedson, 2005), with no investigation...

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Section: Oral Motor Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The development of oral motor control and language

Alcock

2006

Downs Syndr. Res. Pract.

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“…18 It is important that the behavioral states are well controlled, that the airway is patent and that the overall cardiorespiratory activity is stable. 19 Internal factors that influence the normal development of sucking and swallowing patterns are the infant's state of health, his oral feeding experience, the ability to regulate oxygen, development of alertness and sucking strength and the organization of the sucking pattern. External factors are size and speed of milk flow, the impact of nasogastric tubes in place during feeding and the type of feeding support provided by the caregiver.…”

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Sucking and swallowing in infants and diagnostic tools

Costa

Engel-Hoek

Bos³

2008

J Perinatol

107

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Preterm infants often have difficulties in learning how to suckle from the breast or how to drink from a bottle. As yet, it is unclear whether this is part of their prematurity or whether it is caused by neurological problems. Is it possible to decide on the basis of how an infant learns to suckle or drink whether it needs help and if so, what kind of help? In addition, can any predictions be made regarding the relationship between these difficulties and later neurodevelopmental outcome? We searched the literature for recent insights into the development of sucking and the factors that play a role in acquiring this skill. Our aim was to find a diagnostic tool that focuses on the readiness for feeding or that provides guidelines for interventions. At the same time, we searched for studies on the relationship between early sucking behavior and developmental outcome. It appeared that there is a great need for a reliable, user-friendly and noninvasive diagnostic tool to study sucking in preterm and full-term infants.

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“…evelopment of new scales as assessment tools of swallowing and eating behaviors and dysphagia for children is increasing [1][2][3][4]. Nowadays, due to appropriate therapeutic techniques, more children and adults are being survived from medical accidents.…”

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“…This is the only scale available to evaluate premature infants who are fed by breast and bottle [1,9,15], and it also assesses Nutritive Sucking (NS) and Non-Nutritive Sucking (NNS) up to the age of 8 weeks. In order to assess the infant's sucking skills, the infant is observed for 2 min and information regarding his/her coordination between sucking and swallowing; maintaining the sucking, swallowing, and breathing coordination in bursts; and rhythmic sucking is collected [16,17].…”

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Test-Retest and Inter-Rater Reliability Study of the Schedule for Oral-Motor Assessment in Persian Children

Abadi

Yadegari

Mehdizade

et al. 2018

IRJ

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Objectives: Reliable and valid clinical tools to screen, diagnose, and describe eating functions and dysphagia in children are highly warranted. Today most specialists are aware of the role of assessment scales in the treatment of affected individuals. However, the problem is that the clinical tools used might be nonstandard, and worldwide, there is no integrated assessment performed to assess the aforementioned conditions. In a previous study, we translated and examined the schedule for oral-motor assessment for its content validity. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to investigate the test-retest and inter-rater reliability of the schedule for oralmotor assessment. Methods:In this validation project, 23 children (6-48 month-old) who were referred to the imaging center were recruited. The assessment was based on the schedule for oralmotor assessment and was conducted by two speech-language pathologists for an interrater agreement evaluation. A retest was completed on 13 children up to 7 days. Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC), kappa coefficient, and percentage of agreement were analyzed by using SPSS software (version 17). Results:We found a moderate Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC=0.48) and a relatively sensible kappa coefficient (K=0.50) for test-retest agreement. Two speech-language pathologists reached 91% agreement on normal-dysfunctional decisions of schedule for oralmotor assessment. Sections 2, 3, 4, and 6 of schedule for oral-motor assessment demonstrated an agreement of 100%, and Sections 1 and 5 demonstrated an agreement of 91%.Discussion: Schedule for oral-motor assessment meets moderate levels of test-retest and interrater reliability criteria. Nonetheless, the percentage of decision consistency for inter-rater and test-retest examination turned out to be excellent.

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Assessment of infant oral sensorimotor and swallowing function

Cited by 112 publications

References 65 publications

The development of oral motor control and language

The development of oral motor control and language

Sucking and swallowing in infants and diagnostic tools

Test-Retest and Inter-Rater Reliability Study of the Schedule for Oral-Motor Assessment in Persian Children

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