Early speech and language intervention in Brazilian-Portuguese toddlers with cleft lip and/or palate.

Young children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CL/P) are at risk for early vocabulary and speech sound production delays. Early intervention studies have shown some promising findings to promote early speech and vocabulary development following palate repair; however, we know little about how these interventions can be used in other international contexts. This study adapted an early speech and language intervention developed in the US, Enhanced Milieu Teaching with Phonological Emphasis (EMT+PE), to the Brazilian context at the Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies at the University of São Paulo-Bauru.

Normative nasalance scores in the production of words and syllables for Brazilian Portuguese speakers.

The objective of this study was to determine normative nasalance scores for non-cleft children, adolescents and adults, native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, during the production of words and syllables, for cross-linguistic comparisons in populations with and without cleft palate. Nasalance was assessed in 62 individuals, aged 6-10 years (n = 20), 11-17 years (n = 20) and 18-35 years (n = 22), using a nasometer II model 6450 (KayPENTAX), during production of one sequence of nine oral words ( and of sequences of isolated syllables (e.g.

Nasalance scores of Brazilian Portuguese speakers at 5 years of age.

Purpose: To determine nasalance scores of Brazilian Portuguese speaking children without evident speech disorders, language delay and orofacial deformities, at age 5 years, and analyze differences between types of speech samples and genders.

Methods: Twenty children were analyzed, 11 males, age ranging from 4 years and 10 months to 5 years and 11 months. The Nasometer II 6450 (KayPENTAX) was used for nasalance assessment.