Two studies examined the relationship between speech perception and speech production errors in children (N=21 and ages 5 and 7) with articulation disorders. Findings indicated the existence of a subgroup of articulation disordered children for whom production errors reflect perception errors. (Author/DB)

As a group, the language impaired children demonstrated deficits in comprehension when compared to the normal language children. However, both groups scored near the ceiling on several tests, and on most tests that did differentiate the two groups, the mean scores of both groups were above the norms. (Author)