Measuring Speech Production Development in Children With Cerebral Palsy Between 6 and 8 Years of Age: Relationships Among Measures
| Autor: | Ashley Sakash, Phoebe E. M. Natzke, Katherine C. Hustad, Tristan J. Mahr |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Linguistics and Language Speech production medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Standardized test Audiology Intelligibility (communication) Pronunciation Severity of Illness Index Language and Linguistics Speech Disorders Cerebral palsy Correlation 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing 0302 clinical medicine Speech Production Measurement medicine otorhinolaryngologic diseases Humans Time point Child Research Articles business.industry Cerebral Palsy Speech Intelligibility Age Factors medicine.disease Comprehension Case-Control Studies Female 0305 other medical science business Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch |
| ISSN: | 1558-9129 |
| Popis: | Purpose Accurate measurement of speech intelligibility is essential for children with speech production deficits, but wide variability exists in the measures and protocols used. The current study sought to examine relationships among measures of speech intelligibility and the capacity of different measures to capture change over time. Method Forty-five children with cerebral palsy (CP) with and without speech motor impairment were observed at ages 6, 7, and 8 years. The speech performance of each child was rated using four measures at each time point: standardized articulation test scores, multiword intelligibility scores obtained from naïve listeners, parent ratings of intelligibility, and percent intelligible utterances obtained from language transcripts. We analyzed the correlations of measures within each age and within three different severity groups, and we analyzed how these measures changed year over year in each severity group. Results For children with CP who have mild and moderate speech deficits, different measures of speech production were weakly associated, and for children with CP with severe speech impairment, these measures showed stronger associations. The four measures also differed in their ability to capture change over time. Finally, results from standardized assessments of articulation were not found to inform overall speech intelligibility for children with mild and moderate speech deficits. Conclusions Results suggest that speech production is not fully described by any single clinical measure. In order to adequately describe functional speaking abilities and to capture change over time, multiple levels of measurement are required. |
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