title: [Summer school speech therapy for children with cleft palate and language disorder].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cleft palate patients with language impairment require specific therapy.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Study two modalities of speech intervention in cleft palate children with associated linguistic impairment, a conventional approach providing speech therapy, twice a week, and a speech summer camp for a period of three weeks.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-five cleft palate patients with language impairment were studied. A matched control group was gathered. Patients included in the first group attended a three week duration speech summer camp. Control patients included in the second group received speech therapy twice a week.
  
  
  RESULTS
  At the onset of either the summer camp or the speech intervention period, the severity of language impairment was evenly distributed with non-significant differences across groups (p > 0.05). After the summer camp or 9 months of speech therapy sessions, both groups showed a significant decrease in the severity of language impairment (p < 0.05). At the end of the summer camp, and the therapy period, non-significant differences, were found between groups (p > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Speech summer camp is a reliable and efficient method to provide speech therapy for left palate patients with language impairment.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Foniatría, Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea González, México D.F., México. macamenpamplona@hotmail.com
authors.forename: María del Carmen
authors.initials: Mdel C
authors.lastname: Pamplona
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ysunza
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.forename: Sabrina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vergara
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D013070:Speech Therapy