Swallowing and Motor Speech Skills in Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: Novel Findings From a Preliminary Cross-Sectional Study.
Georgia A MalandrakiSamantha S MitchellRachel E Hahn ArkenbergBarbara BrownBruce Α CraigWendy Burdo-HartmanJennifer P LundineMeghan Darling-WhiteLisa GoffmanPublished in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR (2022)
Swallowing and motor speech skills can be affected in school-age children with UCP, with wide variability of performance also noted. Preliminary cross-system interactions between swallowing, speech, and language are observed and might support the complex relationships between these domains. Further understanding these relationships in this population could have prognostic and/or therapeutic value and warrants further study.