Abstract
The present study investigates articuration therapy combined with a static relaxation technique for children with cerebral palsy, a 12 years old male with moderate mental retardation (case 1), and a 13 years old male (case 2) with profound retardarion. Before their articuration therapy to facilitate the breathing muscles, the larynx muscles, and the muscles around mouth by the static relaxation technique (Seiteki shikan-yudo method: Tachikawa, 1985) was conducted to increased the readiness of the articuration learning. The observed results indicated the improvement of articuration in case 1, and maintenance posture to his voices in case 2. These results suggested that articuration tharapy in combination with the static relaxation technique was effective for children with cerebral palsy accompanied with mental retardation.
