Abstract
Current status of speech therapeutics in amelioration of dysarthria in cerebral palsy has seen a universal prescription of oroneuromotor vegetative exercises.
This is based on the premise that speech and deglutition ("... the process whereby a bolus, liquid or solid, is transferred from the buccal cavity to the
stomach" - Lund, 1987) have manifold connections, with the two automated motor acts developing in parallel or subserved at least in part by different
neuronal structures (Netsell, 1986). Providing a finesse to our therapeutic regime demands an insight into this oral motor physiology of deglutition. In lieu of the
the inevitable application of the transdisciplinary team approach, borrowing principles in practice from the allied professions in Indian set up, the current study is an
attempt: