Oral breathing and speech disorders in children

Objective: To assess speech alterations in mouth-breathing children, and to correlate them with the respiratory type, etiology, gender, and age. Method: A total of 439 mouth-breathers were evaluated, aged between 4 and 12 years. The presence of speech alterations in children older than 5 years was c...

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Main Authors: Silvia F. Hitos, Renata Arakaki, Dirceu Solé, Luc L.M. Weckx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-07-01
Series:Jornal de Pediatria
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021755713000958