Stomatognatic system of patients with brain accident of the University Hospital Dr. Alfredo Van Grieken

Abstract

Speech therapy studies human communication (Brazil, 2004) and stroke is the sudden appearance of loss of focal neurological function due to infarction or cerebral hemorrhage, affecting the stomatognathic system from speech to swallowing (Valenzuela, 2019). The assumed method was participatory action research (IAP) with the purpose of Intervening with phonoaudiological strategies the stomatognathic system of patients with cerebrovascular accident of the University Hospital Dr. Alfredo Van Grieken. An interview guide was applied. For the analysis of the information of three key informants, categorization and triangulation, contrast and theorizing were used. Results: the application of the speech and language intervention plan produces a change in the elderly patient and the staff of the Hospital's Neurosurgery service, who now have allies to monitor and improve the patient once the stroke occurs, making the family the protagonist of the person's progress.