Accuracy of Articulatory Movements of Speech in a Group of First-Graders

Qvarnström, Mari; Jaroma, S.Marjatta; Laine, M.Tellervo

doi:10.1159/000266265

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“…Ten-year-old boys in the hospital referral group had more difficulties in almost all tasks related to the coordination of tongue movements than girls of the same age did. During the first phase of the study, boys had more /r/ disorders pro duced too far posteriorly, which seemed to be resistant to treatment [18] and were associat ed with difficulties in coordinating the move ments of the muscles of the tongue [35], Ac cording to the present results, the frequency of posterior variants among 10-year-old boys continued to be high. Evidently slower motor maturation alone does not explain the relative delay in the motor coordination development of boys with posterior misarticulalions.…”

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“…The morphology and function of the articulators were recorded for all subjects by an experienced phoniatrician using the method developed for diagnos tics at the Department of Otolaryngology and Phoniatrics, Kuopio University Hospital (Appendix I) [35]. 194 Qvamstrom/Jaroma/Lainc Changes in Oral Motoricsof Schoolchildren The tonus of the lips, the width and length of the tongue and the length of the soft palate were assessed visually.…”

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“…Coordination of those movements was categorized accordingly [35]. However, during the second phase of the study the number of subjects hav ing disorders in different movements and their coordi nation was small, and for the statistical analyses the movements were recategorized into ( l ) movements of the tongue and (2) coordination of the movements of the tongue.…”

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Changes in the Peripheral Speech Mechanism of Children from the Age of 7 to 10 Years

Qyarnström

Jaroma²,

Laine³

1994

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Changes in the morphology and functioning of the speech articulators were assessed in 118 children monitored from the age of 7 to 10 years, and associations between these variables and misarticulations were analyzed. The accuracy of articulatory movements and their coordination improved markedly. There was a relative delay in development of the motor coordination of boys who produced sounds too far posteriorly. Difficulties in tongue movements and their coordination increased the risk for the category of other misarticulations. Difficulties in motor coordination contributed to a lesser extent to articulatory speech disorders in 10-year-olds compared to 7-year-olds. Some new cases of inaccuracy of coordinating the movements refer to the lability of muscle coordination still at the age of 10.

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Changes in the Peripheral Speech Mechanism of Children from the Age of 7 to 10 Years

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Laine³

1994

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“…Early development and especially early speech development as well as early progress of fine motor movements have been reported to be slower among boys [4,19,[20][21][22]. Misarticulating boys seem to have more inaccurate tongue movements and problems in coordinating those movements than children without speech defects [23]. Disorders in speech sound production in general seem to reflect immaturity in fine motor control of the orofacial muscles in 6-to 8-year-old children [24].…”

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Occurrence of Dental Consonant Misarticulations in Different Cleft Types

Laitinen

Haapanen

Paaso

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To study the occurrence and type of misarticulations in dental consonants /r/, /s/ and /l/ 280 (115 girls, 165 boys) 6-year-old cleft children were examined by 1 of the 2 experienced speech pathologists of the cleft team. The patients included 82 children with isolated cleft palate (CP), 82 with cleft lip with (34) or without (48) cleft alveolus [CL(A)], 85 with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) and 31 with bilateral cleft lip and palate (BCLP). CP children were first divided into subgroups; there were 17 children with soft palate cleft, 49 with partial and 16 with complete hard palate cleft. All patients were native Finnish speakers, and had normal hearing, no known syndrome or associated anomalies possibly affecting speech or psychomotor retardation. The results showed that the occurrence and severity as well as the number of errors of all studied sounds separately or grouped increased with the severity of the cleft being constantly greatest in the BCLP group and lowest in the CL(A) group. Altogether 44% of the patients misarticulated at least one studied sound; 41% distorted and 5% substituted, and 2% both distorted and substituted. The /r/ sound was misarticulated by 36%, the /s/ sound by 23%, and the /l/ sound by 18% of the patients. Boys tend to have more problems in producing the studied sounds correctly.

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“…(p. 155) A review of the studies since Winitz concluded that there is still no definitive answer to this question. Studies that treated this population as a single undifferentiated group (e.g., Dworkin & Culatta, 1985;Jordan, Hardy, & Morris, 1978;Qvarnstrom, Jaroma, & Laine, 1993) found both differences and no differences compared to typically developing children. Studies that compared subgroups of children with SD of unknown origin to each other or to typically developing children (e.g., Bradford & Dodd, 1996;Hamlet, 1985;Hetrick & Sommers, 1988;McGlone & Proffit, 1973) also revealed a mixed picture.…”

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Articulation Rate and Speech-Sound Normalization Failure

Flipsen

2003

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Not all children with speech delay (SD) of unknown origin develop fully normal speech even with intervention. Many retain residual distortion errors into adolescence and ultimately into adulthood. The current study examined whether articulation rate distinguishes those children who retain residual errors from those who normalize. Two groups of speech-delayed children originally identified at preschool age were retested at age 9 years (the early follow-up group) and at age 12–16 years (the late follow-up group), respectively. No differences in articulation rate were observed at either test time in conversational speech between those children who continued to produce residual distortion errors (RE) compared to those children who had fully normalized speech (NSA). For the late follow-up group, children in the RE outcome group articulated speech at significantly slower rates than the children in the NSA outcome group in an embedded words task using both syllables per second and phones per second measures. Findings suggested that children with SD of unknown origin who fail to normalize may have relative speech-motor deficits and possibly deficits in language formulation skill. Alternatively, slower articulation rate in structured tasks may represent some sort of compensation for the continuing presence of speech-sound errors. Possible motivations for such compensation are discussed.

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Accuracy of Articulatory Movements of Speech in a Group of First-Graders

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Changes in the Peripheral Speech Mechanism of Children from the Age of 7 to 10 Years

Changes in the Peripheral Speech Mechanism of Children from the Age of 7 to 10 Years

Occurrence of Dental Consonant Misarticulations in Different Cleft Types

Articulation Rate and Speech-Sound Normalization Failure

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