PURPOSE: case report of congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis of a 3-year-old child as well as discussing the speech-language findings, in relation to the aspects of the stomatognathic system, highlighting the process of rehabilitation for speech and hearing organs. METHODS: case report, based on the data gathered in the anamnesis, clinical evaluation and interviews with child's parents. RESULTS: a considerable deficit was verified in all the stomatognathic's function, presence of self-mutilation behavior with loss tissue in tongue, lips, hands and fingers that gave rise to a severe malnutrition, anemia pictures and frequent hospital internments. After the speech-language pathologist therapy program the patient has been obtaining improvement in the aforementioned affected functions, tonicity of the speech and hearing organs, and regression of malnutrition, anemia, self-mutilation and current traumas of the insensibility to the painful stimulus. CONCLUSION: the speech-language therapy in this case report is important, pointing out for the possibility of delaying symptoms that will appear with the progression of the disease. In that way, the early performance of the speech-language pathologist in consonance with the other health professionals, may retard the evolution of the clinical picture, seeking a better quality of life for the patients and for their family.
Pain Insensitivity; Congenital; Hypohidrosis; Self Mutilation; Mental Retardation
