The survival rates of preterm infants has increased over the last years, but oral feeding difficulties are most common problems encountered by them.This study aimed at comparing effects non-nutritive sucking (NNS) and pre-feeding stimulation on skills, length hospital stay weight gain 26-32 weeks gestational age in NICU, to determine more effective intervention.Thirty-two were assigned randomly into three groups. One intervention group received program other stimulation, while control a sham...

One of the limiting factors for early hospital discharge in preterm infants is their inability to feed sufficiently obtain consistent weight gain. Therefore, feeding difficulty one most significant issues with which a infant faced.The purpose this study was examine effect oral sensory motor stimulation on performance, length stay, and gain at 30 - 32 weeks gestational age.Premature (n = 20) were randomly assigned experimental control groups. The group received structures (15 minutes / day)...

Limited data available about the mechanisms of dysphagia and areas involving swallow after brain damage; accordingly it is hard to predict which cases are more likely develop swallowing dysfunction based on neuroimaging. The aim this study was investigate relationship between lesions in a sample acute conscious stroke patients.In cross-sectional study, 113 patients (69 male mean [standard deviation (SD)] age 64.37 [15.1]), participated study. Two neurologists one radiologist localized...

Swallowing disorder is prevalent in children with cerebral palsy (CP), and previous studies have shown that motor-based programs benefit CP by facilitating motor learning. We hypothesized action observation training (AOT) could enhance learning improve the oral phase of swallowing children. In this two-group parallel double-blind randomized controlled trial, intervention group received AOT sensorimotor therapy, while control a sham therapy. The function swallowing, as primary outcome, was...

Cognitive status is important for performing the assessment and treatment of dysphagia. Nonetheless, cognitive neuropsychological profile patients with stroke dysphagia not studied as deeply enough it should be. On one hand, focal non-focal brain lesions may lead to disorders, on other possibly affects swallowing. In this study, cognition supposed be a mediator between lesion swallowing disorder (dysphagia). The role attention mediators was evaluated via three causal models in which...

Numerous studies have indicated deterioration of speech perception in noisy conditions among the elderly even those with normal hearing capabilities. The aim this study was to investigate effects age on speech-in-noise identification by (SIN) test, subjective ratings difficulties speech, spatial, and qualities scale (SSQ) questionnaire encoding fundamental frequency (F0) Speech auditory brainstem response (ABR) comparing results young people.The present conducted 32 people aged over 60 years...

Purpose: The present study which addressed adults who stutter (AWS) attempted to investigate power spectral dynamics in the stuttering state by answering questions using quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). Method: A 64-channel (EEG) setup was used for data acquisition at 20 AWS. Since speech, especially stuttering, causes significant noise EEG, 2 conditions of speech preparation (SP) and imagined (IS) were considered. EEG signals decomposed into 6 bands. corresponding sources...

A cochlear implant is a device that helps hearing-impaired children by transmitting sound signals to the brain and helping them improve their speech, language, social interaction. Although various studies have investigated different aspects of speech perception language acquisition in cochlear-implanted children, little known about skills, particularly Persian-speaking children. Considering growing number implants being performed Iran increasing importance developing near-normal skills as...

AbstractAbstract Aims: Studies on prevalence of stuttering in bilinguals are scarce and contradictory. The aim this study was to investigate the among Kurdish-Persian bilingual students Javanroud, one Kurdish cities west Iran. Method: All city participated cross-sectional descriptive study. We used teacher referral method for primary screening speech disorders. Essential information about disorders, especially stuttering, had been given teachers before step. referred were interviewed both...

Considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) should face difficulties in this task. Therefore, clinical examination has become a useful tool for studying assessment communication skills people suffering from TBI. Among different genres discourse, persuasive considered as more cognitively demanding However, little known about TBI.The purpose study was to evaluate performance adults TBI on task...

OBJECTIVE:Different studies on normal children and with a sensory or intellectual disability indicate strong correlation between the child's vocabulary domain his cognitive abilities.Based this, main focus of present study was to investigate performance cochlear-implanted after cognition-based language intervention program. METHODS:In this experimental study, 60 were selected randomly allocated into case control groups.The group received auditory verbal therapy (AVT), while trained by using...