[A preliminary study on speech therapy for adult cleft palate patients].
OBJECTIVE
To study speech feature and treatment of adult with misarticulation by review 20 patients' clinical information.


METHODS
20 adult patients (10 male, 10 female, age ranging from 20 to 38 years, mean age 20.35 years) with misarticulation were available for this study. All received specialized examination, Chinese speech intelligibility test and blowing test before speech treatment, 17 cases underwent posterior pharyngeal flap operation before speech treatment. Speech treatment included audio discrimination, behaviour training, lip phone training, aspirates and fricatives training, tongue lolling out, comprehensive training, et al.


RESULTS
All cases were restored normal speech approximately after speech treatment, consonants loss and hypernasality of some patients totally disappeared. But there were some complications in speech treatment of 4 cases.


CONCLUSIONS
The outcome of appropriate adult speech treatment was satisfactory, though adult speech treatment was more difficult than child's.
Wang
Guo-min
GM
Therapy and Research Center of Cleft Lip and Palate, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai 200011, China.
Jiang
Li-ping
LP
Wu
Yi-lai
YL
Chen
Yang
Y
Li
Qing-yun
QY
D000328:Adult; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013070:Speech Therapy