B. Hutters et al., A longitudinal group study of speech development in Danish children born with and without cleft lip and palate, INT J LAN C, 36(4), 2001, pp. 447-470
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Rehabilitation
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
The present study focuses on contoid vocalization by Danish 1-year-old unre
paired toddlers born with cleft lip and palate, and how they differ from th
eir non-cleft peers. Furthermore, we focus on how the same children master
Danish consonants at 3 years of age compared with their non-cleft peers in
terms of their ability to produce consonants in accordance with adult targe
t. Also, with the 3 year olds, we look at cleft speech characteristics as w
ell as developmental speech characteristics found in both groups of childre
n. Based on phonetic transcripion, it was found that Danish unoperated clef
t palate children at 1 year of age produced few types of contoids and prefe
rably contoids that did not require closure of the velopharyngeal port in t
heir prespeech. In addition, the data suggest that consonants produced by c
left children who are treated with one-stage surgery after speech onset, at
3 years of age differ from speech produced by non-cleft children, not only
as regards cleft speech characteristics, but also as regards developmental
speech characteristics.