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Effectiveness of co-operation of physiotherapy and speech therapy in school-age children with cerebral palsy
KASPEROVÁ, Eliška
This Bachelor thesis focuses on a co-operation of physiotherapy and speech therapy in school-age children with cerebral palsy (CP). In the first part CP is described as an illness - its forms, origin and impaired communication ability of these children. Next is the description of basic methods used in physiotherapy. In speech therapy I mentioned important factors of working with these children. The next section is dedicated to a practical part of the thesis, which is a quality research formulated by case studies. The research file is comprised of three children suffering CP - two girls and a boy, all three attending the Kaňka citizens' counselling centre. I gathered all the information using an entry kinesiological analysis, aspection, insight into their medical documentation and results given by their speech therapist. The first goal of my work was to describe diagnostic and therapeutic procedures used in physiotherapy and speech therapy in school-age children with CP. The second goal was to describe the differences in effectivity between a speech therapy following a physiotherapeutic care and speech therapy conducted in isolation. Every patient from my research file underwent seven therapies - entry kinesiological analysis, two speech therapy interventions with no previous physiotherapy and four different physiotherapies followed by a speech therapy intervention. The results were assessed based on my observation and a speech therapist evaluation. I myself view these therapies as successful ones, because my work showed that a co-operation of physiotherapy and speech therapy is very important, and it has its positive results. For example, the children's sitting poses were improved during speech therapy, their face expressions were more relaxed, their breathing in speech therapy exercises improved or their phonation time was extended.
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