Trastornos de los sonidos del habla en usuarios que asistieron al Centro de Desarrollo Integral Los Girasoles en el periodo 2018 - 2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Speech sound disorders (TSH) refer to any difficulty with perception, motor production, or phonological representation of speech sounds and speech segments. TSHs are a variety of expressive and receptive difficulties seen in children as a result of a medical problem or with no known cause. Therefore, there is little consensus on the best way to define and identify them. Objective: To determine speech sound disorders in users who attended the Los Girasoles comprehensive development center in the period 2018 - 2020. Methodology: A descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study using frequency and percentage tables, with a universe of 110 users. The collected data will be transcribed into a digital database and analyzed with the SPSS v22 statistical program. Results: 61.8% of the children who attended the Integral Los Girasoles center were male and according to age, 29.1% were 4 years old. According to the TSH, the Mixed represented 59.1% being more frequent in children with 38.2% and according to age the same type occurred between 3 and 4 years in 17.3% respectively. Finally, according to the errors of the speech sounds, the substitution occurred in 98.2% of the cases, with children being the most affected with 60% and according to age, 28.2% affected the 4 years. Conclusions: Speech disorders in preschool children are a public health problem, these children upon entering school will be a vulnerable group that will require not only speech-related intervention but also, in some cases, emotional and behavioral support.