She was a term infant with intrauterine growth retardation. An upper GI examination a few days prior to this examination had revealed occasional silent aspiration with swallowing, gastroesophageal ...

Each year, an estimated 10 million adults and 500,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with swallowing problems caused by neurologic disorders. Dysphagia, or swallowing disorders, is ...

has been focused on examining the neuroplastic adaptations of swallowing and speech in school age children with unilateral and bilateral brain damage manifesting as cerebral palsy (CP). In essence by ...

Infant was positioned semi-upright in his typical feeding posture in a seat for a lateral view of oral, pharyngeal, and upper esophageal phases of swallowing. The sequence of swallows in this ...