DEVELOPMENTAL PHONOLOGICAL DISORDERS .1. A CLINICAL PROFILE

Detailed information on the speech, language, prosody, and voice chara cteristics of children with developmental phonological disorders is ce ntral to diverse research questions. The present study provides a clin ical profile of 178 children with developmental phonological disorders . It includes information from prior reports (Shriberg & Kwiatkowski, 1982a; Shriberg, Kwiatkowski, Best, Hengst, & Terselic-Weber, 1986) an d from several new measures on a sample of 64 children. The speech, pr osody-voice, and causal-correlates profiles for the most recent sample are consistent with prior findings, providing a descriptive profile f or forthcoming subgroup research and companion studies addressing shor t-term (Shriberg, Kwiatkowski, & Gruber, 1994) and long-term (Shriberg , Gruber, & Kwiatkowski, 1994) speech-sound normalization.