Background and purpose Comprehensive swallow screening assessments to identify dysphagia make early eating drinking recommendations can be used by trained nurses. This study aimed validate the Dysphagia Trained Nurse Assessment (DTNAx) tool in acute stroke patients. Methods Participants with diagnosed were prospectively consecutively recruited from an unit. Following a baseline DTNAx on admissi...

The present article talks about a model of analysis and interpretation music through the metaphorical translation each musical parameter. In order for to be therapeutic means, we believe that it must become experience facilitate access deep areas self, as well raise questions problems extra-musical origin. Thus, has metaphor can resonate with therapist use in health promotion process, final cen...

Abstract Schizophrenia is characterised by a variety of symptoms, many which are expressed verbally. However, privacy concerns limit the possibility collecting and sharing large corpora schizophrenic speech. As result, variability in communicative behaviour individuals with schizophrenia currently poorly understood. In this study we explore how far content-free speech activity records can succe...

This paper introduces Vocaliza, an application for computeraided speech therapy in Spanish language based on the use of Human Language Technologies (HLT). The objective of this application is to help the daily work of the speech therapists that train the linguistic skills of Spanish speakers with different speech impairments, working at three levels of language: phonological, semantic and synta...

Prelingually deaf children very rarely develop speech spontaneously. Speech is almost always developed through training, using the visibility of phonetic features, reading, tactile sensation and, ifpossible, residual hearing. These inputs severely limit speech perception potential and cause deaf children to make unavoidable articulatory deviations that affect their ability to signal meaning dif...

In this talk we will give an overview of the different kinds of communication disorders. We will concentrate on communication disorders related to language and speech (i.e., not look at disorders like blindness or deafness). Speech and language disorders can range from simple sound substitution to the inability to understand or use language. Thus, a disorder may affect one or several linguistic...

ABSTRACT Facial palsies have multiple etiologies, but in common the negative impact not only on functions of stomatognathic system also self-image and emotional expression. This article aimed to describe a case study unilateral peripheral facial palsy caused by Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Hence, it shares assessment intervention experiences related this type change presents its functional results....

Objective: To describe the activities of a multiprofessional outpatient clinic performed by neonatologist, physiatrist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, audiologist and psychologist, who evaluated the development of premature newborns. Methods: Twenty children born at a tertiary-care hospital (São Paulo, Brazil), between April 2006 and April 2007, with birth weight ...

This paper takes up the issue of how instruction can be accomplished in circumstances in which an instructional orientation during interaction is considered to be or is treated as problematic. In couple therapy, as with other interactional settings, talk about an actor’s experience, especially when participants have different access to that experience, can be a delicate matter. Therapist’s form...