Sistema de actividades para compensar la disartria en un joven con parálisis cerebral y discapacidad intelectual leve

Abstract

This research is focused on a single case study, where the subject of inquiry is a student with dysarthria, a consequence of cerebral palsy that is associated with an intellectual disability. Dysarthria is conceived as a speech disorder, where muscle mobility is affected by weakness, spasticity, slowness and ataxias, which cause an alteration in the joint, however the study subject also presents difficulties at the semantic, morphological and pragmatic, because of intellectual disability. To solve this problem, the design of an activity system has been proposed, which is a set of related actions that have a common objective. Said system is focused on compensating said disorder, through activities for the mobility of the phono-articulatory muscles, rhythm and fluency, increasing the lexicon, improving grammatical rules and extending its pragmatic level. It was applied during 15 sessions, where improvements at a phonetic, semantic and morphological level have been evidenced, therefore it can be said that speech therapy intervention has positive results in people with dysarthria. To reach the solution of the problem, several processes have been carried out during the research, bibliographic review, interview with the teacher and student, documentary review, participant observation for the collection of information, and a triangulation of data to get to narrate the case in detail, focusing primarily on the language characteristics of the student.