| Objective: To observe the influence of music therapy on language/speech communication disorders in children with spastic cerebral palsy. Methods: A total of 40 children with spastic cerebral palsy aged 3-5 years with language/speech communication disorder were randomly divided into control group and observation group, with 20 cases in each group. The control group was given language/speech training for 40 min, and the observation group was given language/speech training and music therapy for 20 min each, once a day, 5 days a week for 12 weeks. The curative effect was evaluated before and 12 weeks after treatment. The S-S language retardation test was used to evaluate the children’s understanding and expression ability. The adaptability, language and personal social behavior development quotient of children were evaluated by Gesell development diagnosis schedules (GDDS). The speech intelligibility of children was evaluated by using the word list of assessment of articulation and speech ability. Fudan Chinese version of communication function classification system (CFCS) was used to evaluate children’s communication ability. The above indicators were analyzed before and 12 weeks after treatment. Results: Before treatment, there was no significant difference between the two groups in language comprehension and expression ability of S-S method, GDDS adaptability, language and personal social behavior development quotient, speech intelligibility and communication function classification (all P>0.05). After 12 weeks of treatment, the levels of language comprehension and expression, adaptability, language and personal social behavior development quotient, speech intelligibility and communication function in the two groups were significantly higher than those before treatment (all P<0.05), and all indexes in the observation group were better than those in the control group (all P<0.05). Conclusion: Music therapy combined with language/speech training is more effective in improving communication disorder in children with spastic cerebral palsy than simple language/speech training. |
