
Test-retest reliability was similarly excellent for 85% of ratable behaviors. Excellent levels of interrater reliability (kappa >0.75) were obtained for the presence/absence of 69% of discrete oral-motor behaviors.


Interrater and test-retest reliabilities were determined on a subset of 10 infants who each took part in three trials rated by 2 therapists. A total of 127 children have been studied with the instrument, including normal healthy infants and samples with nonorganic failure to thrive, and cerebral palsy. The schedule distinguishes these from skills at more aggregated levels of functioning such as jaw, lip, and tongue control. Oral-motor skills are evaluated in terms of discrete oral-motor movements. A series of foodstuffs of varying textures, including liquids, is presented to the child in a standardized manner. The procedure takes approximately 20 min to administer, and is intended to be rated largely from a videorecording of a structured feeding session. Its aim is to identify areas of dysfunction that could contribute to feeding difficulties.

From actual data obtained as data to support the process of writing in this study.The Schedule for Oral Motor Assessment (SOMA) was developed to record oral-motor skills objectively in infants between ages 8 and 24 months postnatal. The research method used is qualitative research, with qualitative data which means directly taken from research location used as actual data. Successful implementation of development depends on the ability of officials responsible for implementation of development to arrange various resources in achieving a goal.

Coordination is intended for the implementing the development the apparatus should accumulate all of human resources and other resources owned. Coordinating mechanisms in implementation of development to continue to direct its activities towards the achievement of these development goals and reduce inefficiencies and destructive conflicts. The achievement of these ideals is implemented in a systematic and integrated in form of operational development in harmony with phenomenon and dynamics that occur in society life. Abstract Implementation of the National Development Activities in the State of the Republic of Indonesia is actually one of the efforts to realize the ideals of the nation that is the creation of prosperous and prosperous society welfare based on the Constitution ( Pembukaan UUD 1945).
