1Senior Professional Trainee(Academics), Department of Occupational Therapy, NILD, B.T Road, Bonhoogly, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2Lecturer, Department of Occupational Therapy, NILD, B.T Road, Bonhoogly, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
3Assistant Professor (OT) and Head, Department of Occupational Therapy, NILD, B.T Road, Bonhoogly, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
To find the effectiveness of Oral Sensorimotor stimulation in controlling drooling and improving feeding behavior in children with spastic Cerebral palsy and to determine the relationship of drooling with feeding behavior in children with spastic Cerebral palsy.
Pre test-Post test Experimental design
Department of Occupational therapy, NILD, Kolkata.
Children aged 18months to 12years [(N=30 with spastic cerebral palsy were randomly allocated into two groups i.e. control group (n=15) and experimental group (n=15)].
Oral sensorimotor stimulation along with conventional occupational therapy was provided to experimental group and only conventional occupational therapy was provided to control group.
Drooling Impact Scale and Behavioral Pediatrics Feeding Assessment Scale are the two outcome measure used.
Oral Sensorimotor Stimulation along with the conventional occupational therapy yields significant reduction in drooling and improvement in feeding behavior than the conventional occupational therapy alone. Again it was also found that drooling has moderate positive relationship with feeding behavior in children with spastic cerebral palsy.
Oral Sensorimotor Stimulation along with conventional occupational therapy reduces drooling and improves feeding behavior in the children with spastic cerebral palsy, than the conventional occupational therapy alone. It has also shown that drooling has moderate positive relationship with feeding behavior in spastic cerebral palsy.
Spastic cerebral palsy, feeding behavior, Drooling
