Global and communicative development skills in preschool children with cleft lip and palate

• 作者: Jurado Mayalle Rocha Bonfim Cavalheiro Maria Gabriela de Castro Corrêa Camila Whitaker Melina Evangelista de Vasconcelos Hage Simone Rocha Lam?nica Dionísia Aparecida Cusin Maximino Luciana Paula
• 来源期刊: 儿科学研究（英文）
• 关键词: Cleft lip and palate Language Child Preschool
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: Original Article
• 页码范围: 33-37
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.1002/ped4.12250

摘要

Importance::Cleft lip and palate (CLP) is globally among the most common childhood malformations. This disorder impacts childhood development, including speech and language, and affects children worldwide.Objective::To analyze child development skills (adaptive fine motor, gross motor, personal-social, and language) in preschool children with isolated CLP compared with children without this malformation.Methods::The participants included an experimental group of 27 children with isolated CLP and a comparison group of 27 children without CLP aged between 48 and 59 months. The groups were evaluated using two instruments: the Denver Developmental Screening Test II (DDST-II) and the Avalia??o do Desenvolvimento da Linguagem (ADL-Language Development Assessment). Data were analyzed by descriptive and inductive analyses, using the Student’s t-test and the Mann-Whitney test, at a significance level of P ? 0.05. Results::All children in the comparison group performed within normal standards for their age range in the DDST-II and the ADL. The worst performance in the experimental group was observed in language skills, followed, in declining order, by adaptive fine motor, personal-social, and gross motor as measured by the DDST-II. Children with isolated CLP also performed poorly in receptive, expressive, and global language in the ADL. No statistically significant differences were observed in the experimental group’s scores for the ADL and the DDST-II.Interpretation::Developmental skill levels were below expectations for children of this age with isolated CLP.