Bildiri_Kitabi

“Tanıdan Tedaviye Nörojenik Yutma Bozuklukları”
12-14 Nisan 2017, Ankara
INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORAL
MOTOR DEVELOPMENT AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN
PRETERM BABIES
Erkan EROL 1 , Bülent ELBASAN 1 , Müşerref KELEŞ 1 , Numan DEMİR 2 , Ayşe KARADUMAN 2
1
Gazi University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
2
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Physiotherapy and
Rehabilitation
PURPOSE: Infants born preterm may suffer from motor development and
feeding problems because of staying long time in neonatal intensive care units.
Feeding problems are stressful for both preterm infants and parents. This study
was planned to investigate the relationship between the oral motor functions
and motor development in preterm infants.
MATERIALS and METHODS: A total of 29 preterm and 28 term infants,
beetween corrected ages 10-12 months, referred to Gazi University Department
of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation were included this study. Alberta Infant
Motor Scale (AIMS) and Schedule for Oral Motor Assessment (SOMA) were
used to evaluate their motor and oral motor development respectively.
RESULTS: According to the results, oral motor dysfunction observed in 5
infants in preterm infants. The motor development, which represents %5th
below according to AIMS was observed in 8 infants as abnormal performance
in preterm infants. A correlation founded between puree, solid, cracker,
bottle, cup categories of SOMA, total score of SOMA and AIMS percentile
score (p