Examining Speech Production in Children with Cleft Palate with or without Cleft Lip: An Investigation of Characteristics related to Speech Articulation Skills
abstract: Children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CP+/-L) often demonstrate disordered speech. Clinicians and researchers have a goal for children with CP+/-L to demonstrate typical speech when entering kindergarten; however, this benchmark is not routinely met. There is a large body o...
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ndltd-asu.edu-item-574192020-06-02T03:01:32Z Examining Speech Production in Children with Cleft Palate with or without Cleft Lip: An Investigation of Characteristics related to Speech Articulation Skills abstract: Children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CP+/-L) often demonstrate disordered speech. Clinicians and researchers have a goal for children with CP+/-L to demonstrate typical speech when entering kindergarten; however, this benchmark is not routinely met. There is a large body of previous research examining speech articulation skills in this clinical population; however, there are continued questions regarding the severity of articulation deficits in children with CP+/-L, especially for the age range of children entering school. This dissertation aimed to provide additional information on speech accuracy and speech error usage in children with CP+/-L between the ages of four and seven years. Additionally, it explored individual and treatment characteristics that may influence articulation skills. Finally, it examined the relationship between speech accuracy during a sentence repetition task versus during a single-word naming task. Children with CP+/-L presented with speech accuracy that differed according to manner of production. Speech accuracy for fricative phonemes was influenced by severity of hypernasality, although age and status of secondary surgery did not influence speech accuracy for fricatives. For place of articulation, children with CP+/-L demonstrated strongest accuracy of production for bilabial and velar phonemes, while alveolar and palatal phonemes were produced with lower accuracy. Children with clefting that involved the lip and alveolus demonstrated reduced speech accuracy for alveolar phonemes compared to children with clefts involving the hard and soft palate only. Participants used a variety of speech error types, with developmental/phonological errors, anterior oral cleft speech characteristics, and compensatory errors occurring most frequently across the sample. Several factors impacted the type of speech errors used, including cleft type, severity of hypernasality, and age. The results from this dissertation project support previous research findings and provide additional information regarding the severity of speech articulation deficits according to manner and place of consonant production and according to different speech error categories. This study adds information on individual and treatment characteristics that influenced speech accuracy and speech error usage. Dissertation/Thesis Lien, Kari (Author) Scherer, Nancy J (Advisor) Nett Cordero, Kelly (Committee member) Liss, Julie (Committee member) Sitzman, Thomas (Committee member) Arizona State University (Publisher) Speech therapy Articulation Cleft Palate Speech Accuracy Speech Errors eng 87 pages Doctoral Dissertation Speech and Hearing Science 2020 Doctoral Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57419 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ 2020 |
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abstract: Children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CP+/-L) often demonstrate disordered speech. Clinicians and researchers have a goal for children with CP+/-L to demonstrate typical speech when entering kindergarten; however, this benchmark is not routinely met. There is a large body of previous research examining speech articulation skills in this clinical population; however, there are continued questions regarding the severity of articulation deficits in children with CP+/-L, especially for the age range of children entering school. This dissertation aimed to provide additional information on speech accuracy and speech error usage in children with CP+/-L between the ages of four and seven years. Additionally, it explored individual and treatment characteristics that may influence articulation skills. Finally, it examined the relationship between speech accuracy during a sentence repetition task versus during a single-word naming task.
Children with CP+/-L presented with speech accuracy that differed according to manner of production. Speech accuracy for fricative phonemes was influenced by severity of hypernasality, although age and status of secondary surgery did not influence speech accuracy for fricatives. For place of articulation, children with CP+/-L demonstrated strongest accuracy of production for bilabial and velar phonemes, while alveolar and palatal phonemes were produced with lower accuracy. Children with clefting that involved the lip and alveolus demonstrated reduced speech accuracy for alveolar phonemes compared to children with clefts involving the hard and soft palate only.
Participants used a variety of speech error types, with developmental/phonological errors, anterior oral cleft speech characteristics, and compensatory errors occurring most frequently across the sample. Several factors impacted the type of speech errors used, including cleft type, severity of hypernasality, and age.
The results from this dissertation project support previous research findings and provide additional information regarding the severity of speech articulation deficits according to manner and place of consonant production and according to different speech error categories. This study adds information on individual and treatment characteristics that influenced speech accuracy and speech error usage. === Dissertation/Thesis === Doctoral Dissertation Speech and Hearing Science 2020 |
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Examining Speech Production in Children with Cleft Palate with or without Cleft Lip: An Investigation of Characteristics related to Speech Articulation Skills |
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Examining Speech Production in Children with Cleft Palate with or without Cleft Lip: An Investigation of Characteristics related to Speech Articulation Skills |
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Examining Speech Production in Children with Cleft Palate with or without Cleft Lip: An Investigation of Characteristics related to Speech Articulation Skills |
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Examining Speech Production in Children with Cleft Palate with or without Cleft Lip: An Investigation of Characteristics related to Speech Articulation Skills |
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Examining Speech Production in Children with Cleft Palate with or without Cleft Lip: An Investigation of Characteristics related to Speech Articulation Skills |
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examining speech production in children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip: an investigation of characteristics related to speech articulation skills |
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