HISTORICAL LINE OF MASTICATORY SYSTEM AND BREASTFEEDING DURING EARLY CHILDHOOD IN SPEECH THERAPY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Abstract

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE

Speech therapy knowledge is inserted in various social contexts and is historically situated in time and space. Such is the case of orofacial motor skills and breastfeeding. To describe the relationship between orofacial motor skills and breastfeeding during early childhood in speech therapy according to a historical line of available scientific productions in Latin America up to the year 2022.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

A systematic review was carried out, with collection of scientific evidence in the PubMed, Scielo, Virtual Health Library and Google Scholar databases. Articles that related speech therapy, orofacial motor skills and/or breastfeeding were included; whose sample was found between 0 to 2 years of age, postpartum mothers and/or health personnel. The quality of the evidence was assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute scale.

RESULTS

A greater trend of salutogenic production on orofacial motor skills and breastfeeding was found, with large gaps in local (Argentine) productions as well as Latin American identities, where the highest concentration of evidence was found in geographical productions from Brazil. Scientific evidence was recorded from the year 2007 with fluctuations and gaps in the number of publications along the historical line.

CONCLUSIONS

The need for a review of scientific evidence with a speech-language pathology role on orofacial motor skills and breastfeeding in early childhood is necessary to observe an empowering production of the discipline. The gaps found give rise to new productions and new research related to the subject.

Conflict of interest: none