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Marquardt, Thomas P.; Jacks, Adam; Davis, Barbara L. – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
Variability in the speech production patterns of children with developmental apraxia of speech (DAS) was investigated in a three-year longitudinal study of three children with DAS. A metric was developed to measure token-to-token variability in repeated word productions from connected speech samples. Results suggest that high levels of total token…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Speech, Children, Longitudinal Studies
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Carter, Penny; Edwards, Susan – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
This paper reports on a project using a series of single subjects to investigate the effectiveness of using electropalatography (EPG) in treating ten children with persisting speech difficulties of no known organic aetiology. The aims of the project were two-fold, firstly to assess whether the subjects selected benefited from this treatment, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Speech Therapy, Speech Impairments
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Gibbon, Fiona – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
Individuals with cleft palate, even those with adequate velopharyngeal function, are at high risk for disordered lingual articulation. This article attempts to summarize current knowledge of abnormal tongue-palate contact patterns derived from electropalatographic (EPG) data in speakers with cleft palate. These data, which have been reported in 23…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Foreign Countries, Congenital Impairments, Children
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Lohmander, Anette; Lillvik, Malin; Friede, Hans – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
The purpose of study was to investigate the impact of pre-surgical Infant Orthopaedics (IO) on consonant production at 18 months of age in children with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate (UCLP) and to compare the consonant production to that of age-matched children without clefts. The first ten children in a consecutive series of 20 with UCLP…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Surgery, Congenital Impairments