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KMID : 1036820180230020404
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Communication Sciences & Disorders
2018 Volume.23 No. 2 p.404 ~ p.413
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Early and Later Phonological and Language Development of Children with Cleft Palate
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Pi Min-Kyeong
Ha Seung-Hee
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine phonological and language outcomes of children with cleft palate (CP) at 36 months of age, who present differing levels of early language skills which were identified at 24 months of age by parent reports.
Methods: The participants were 7 children with CP who presented delayed expressive language (DEL) group, 6 children with CP who presented normal language development (NLD) group, and 7 typically developing children (TD). Fifty utterances were collected from these 20 children and analyzed using phonological measures (PMLU, PWP, PWC, PCC, consonant inventories) and language measures (NDW, NTW, MLUw, MLUm).
Results: DEL children with CP scored significantly lower on phonological measures when compared with TD; while the NLD children with CP showed no significant difference with the TD. No signifi-cant differences between the three groups were found in the language measures; how-ever, half of DEL children with CP did not reach the language level of TD.
Conclusion: These findings suggest that DEL children with CP have weaker later phonological skills in comparison to both TD and NLD children with CP. However, in terms of language skills, they appear to catch up to the other groups. These results suggest that early intervention with children with CP who are identified as high risk through parent reports at 24 months should aid on phonological development.
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KEYWORD
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Cleft palate, Expressive language delay, Phonological development, Language development, Early intervention
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