Orofacijalne sposobnosti djece koja mucaju
Orofacial abilities of children who stutter

Summary/Abstract: Stuttering, the most well-known speech disorder, is a syndrome with numerous manifestations on the speech and language, as well as the psychological, physical, and social area of those afflicted by it. Because its symptoms are so extensive, stuttering affects many aspects of a person’s life, especially his or her communication with the environment. All this suggests that the sole cause of stuttering is still unknown, and we can only try to find a way to improve the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the disorder. Testing the orofacial abilities of children who stutter is one of those ways, because these abilities emphasize the importance of sensorimotor features involved in speech production in stutterers. An experimental group of children who stutter (N = 10) and a control group of children who do not stutter (N = 20) were subjected to a MAMS test for the assessment of orofacial abilities in which four essential elements were assessed: movement, articulation, as well as mandibular and sensory awareness. The results of the two groups were compared overall and for each part of the test to determine whether the group of children who stutter have poorer orofacial abilities, as was assumed. The results of the study showed that, in general, the orofacial abilities of children who stutter are not as strong as the orofacial abilities of children who do not stutter, and that these children have more difficulty in performing a series of movements of orofacial structures; that they more often have difficulties in the articulation of certain sounds; that they are inferior in tasks of mandibular awareness; and that they have worse sensory awareness because they had more difficulty in identifying an object by sense of touch on the tongue and in recognizing the location of contact on the tongue.An experimental group of children who stutter (N = 10) and a control group of children who do not stutter (N = 20) weresubjected to a MAMS test for the assessment of orofacial abilities in which four essential elements were assessed: movement,articulation, as well as mandibular and sensory awareness. The results of the two groups were compared overall and for each partof the test to determine whether the group of children who stutter have poorer orofacial abilities, as was assumed.The results of the study showed that, in general, the orofacial abilities of children who stutter are not as strong as the orofacialabilities of children who do not stutter, and that these children have more difficulty in performing a series of movements of orofacialstructures; that they more often have difficulties in the articulation of certain sounds; that they are inferior in tasks of mandibularawareness; and that they have worse sensory awareness because they had more difficulty in identifying an object by sense of touchon the tongue and in recognizing the location of contact on the tongue.

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