Prevalencia de patologías fonoaudiológicas en el Centro de Desarrollo Infantil de la Universidad de Cuenca, CEDIUC. 2016- 2019

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Phonoaudiological pathologies are alterations in one or more of the areas of phonoaudiology, such as: language, speech, voice, swallowing and hearing. Among the most relevant are: late language onset, language development disorder, speech sounds disorder, dysphonia, dysphagia and hypoacusis. To achieve this research, clinical histories and phonoaudiological reports of children between the ages of 3 years 11 months to 5 years 11 months, who attended the phonoaudiology area during the period 2016 - 2019, were reviewed. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of phonoaudiological pathologies in the CEDIUC 2016-2019 phonoaudiology area. METHOD: The analysis of the results was performed using Microsoft Excel program version 2010 and SPSS; for quantitative variables through statistical analysis of measures of central tendency. For qualitative variables, frequencies and percentages were used. RESULTS: The present study registered a sample of 117 participants, including clinical histories and speech therapy reports of CEDIUC assistants in the period 2016-2019. The prevalent sex was male with 65.81%, the age range with the highest rate of phonoaudiological pathologies was from 3 years to 3 years 11 months with 46.15%. The most prevalent phonoaudiological pathologies are: late onset of language (24.80%) and phonetic speech sounds disorder (25.65%), followed by dysphagia without specification (0.85%) and oral dysphagia (0.85%), in addition to transmission hypoacusis and without specification (0.85%) and additionally dysphonia (1.70%).