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Alveolar Backing in 3-Year-Old Children With and Without Repaired Cleft Palate: Preliminary Findings Related to Cleft Type and History of Otitis Media.
- Source :
- Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups; Dec2021, Vol. 6 Issue 6, p1889-1899, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Objective: The purpose of this preliminary study was to determine if cleft type and/or history of otitis media with effusion (OM) contribute to backing of /t/ and/or /s/ in young children with and without repaired cleft palate (CP). Method: Participants were 39 children (Mage = 36 months, range: 34-41). Ten children had repaired unilateral cleft lip and palate (CLP), nine had repaired CP only, 12 had no clefts but histories of OM, and eight were typically developing (TD) without clefts or OM history. All children were video- and audio-recorded during administration of the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation--Third Edition (GFTA-3). Standard scores of articulation, frequency of alveolar backing, and first spectral moments of the /t/--/k/ and /s/--/ʃ/ phonetic contrasts were obtained. Results: Children with CLP had lower GFTA-3 scores than both TD (p = .012) and OM (p = .001) groups. Fisher's exact test showed that significantly more children with CLP backed alveolar targets, mostly /s/, than children with CP (p = .020). Children with CLP also had (a) reduced /t/--/k/ spectral difference compared to TD children (p = .016) and (b) reduced /s/--/ʃ/ spectral difference compared to both children with CP (p = .010) and children with OM (p = .018). Children with OM had reduced /t/--/k/ spectral difference compared to TD children (p = .009). Conclusions: Cleft type contributes to alveolar backing and reduced spectral contrast of /s/--/ʃ/ in 3-year-old children with repaired CP. History of OM affects spectral contrast of /t/--/k/ in noncleft children. Etiology and clinical implications of alveolar backing are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- STATISTICS
CONFIDENCE intervals
ONE-way analysis of variance
CLEFT palate
FISHER exact test
PAIRED comparisons (Mathematics)
ARTICULATION disorders
CLEFT lip
COMPARATIVE studies
UNDERGRADUATES
INTER-observer reliability
T-test (Statistics)
CONSONANTS
PHONETICS
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
RESEARCH funding
DATA analysis
STATISTICAL sampling
STATISTICAL correlation
OTITIS media
COMORBIDITY
VIDEO recording
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2381473X
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154248282
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00085