Oral ability to recognize forms and oral motor ability in 11‐year‐old children*

Landt, H; Ingervall, Bengt

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2842.1975.tb00911.x

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“…All but two of the children and all of the adults were able to comprehend and complete the task, indicating that this method can be used with pediatric as well as adult populations. That children took less time than adults to assess each letter is similar to previous reports that 11-year-old children took less time than did young adults (17-year-old boys) to identify shapes in an oral stereognosis task (Landt & Ingervall, 1975). In that study, although the children more frequently misidentified the shapes than did young adults, the absence of a positive correlation between assessment time and shape identification indicated that additional time spent assessing a stimulus did not aid the children in accurately determining its identity.…”

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“…The age-related difference in stimulus assessment time may be due to adults hesitating more than children when naming the letter; however, the shorter identification time among children did not affect task outcome. As in the Landt and Ingervall study (Landt & Ingervall, 1975), we found no relationship between stimulus identification time and overall lingual threshold in either adults or children, indicating that a longer time assessing each letter did not improve lingual acuity threshold.…”

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Lingual tactile acuity and food texture preferences among children and their mothers

Lukasewycz

Mennella

2012

Food Quality and Preference

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Despite anecdotal reports of children being more sensitive to texture than adults, and of texture being one of the main drivers of food aversions, there is a paucity of scientific knowledge on the influence of texture perception on food choice in children. The primary goals of this study were to assess the use of a modified letter-identification task to study lingual tactile acuity, one aspect of oral sensitivity, in children and to examine age-related differences in sensitivity. The secondary goal was to explore whether lingual tactile acuity and age relate to various measures of food choice and preference. To this end, children 7–10 years old (31 girls, 21 boys) and their mothers were tested using identical procedures. To assess lingual tactile acuity, children and mothers were asked to use the tips of their tongues to identify raised alphabetical letters of varying size (2.5–8.0 mm) on Teflon strips. To relate lingual tactile acuity to food texture preferences, a forced-choice questionnaire assessed preferences for foods similar in flavor but different in texture (e.g., smooth versus crunchy peanut butter). Children were able to complete the lingual acuity task as well as their mothers and took less time to assess each letter stimulus (p < 0.001); however, there were no age-related differences in lingual acuity (p = 0.14). Age, but not lingual acuity, related to food texture preferences: mothers preferred harder foods (p < 0.001) and those containing more particles (p < 0.04) than did children, although children‘s preferences became more adult-like with increasing age. The availability of a rapid, child-friendly method for assessing oral sensitivity opens up new possibilities of examining differences in oral tactile perceptions across the life span. That food preferences changed with age and were not related to oral sensitivity underscores the fact that factors such as experience, culture and family food practices have a significant impact on children‘s food texture preferences.

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Lingual tactile acuity and food texture preferences among children and their mothers

Lukasewycz

Mennella

2012

Food Quality and Preference

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“…For example, Landt and Ingervall (1975) suggest that an adult level of skill may not be reached by 11 years, while more speech-like aspects of development may reach their adult level around 14 years (Smith & Zelaznik, 2004). In contrast, other authors suggest that mature skill levels may be reached at a much younger age (Stark & Blackwell, 1997).…”

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The development of oral motor control and language

Alcock

2006

Downs Syndr. Res. Pract.

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-Motor control has long been associated with language skill, in deficits, both acquired and developmental, and in typical development. Most evidence comes from limb praxis however; the link between oral motor control and speech and language has been neglected, despite the fact that most language users talk with their mouths. Oral motor control is affected in a variety of developmental disorders, including Down syndrome. However, its development is poorly understood. We investigated oral motor control in three groups: adults with acquired aphasia, individuals with developmental dysphasia, and typically developing children. In individuals with speech and language difficulties, oral motor control was impaired. More complex movements and sets of movements were even harder for individuals with language impairments. In typically developing children (21-24 months), oral motor control was found to be related to language skills. In both studies, a closer relationship was found between language and complex oral movements than simple oral movements. This relationship remained when the effect of overall cognitive ability was removed. Children who were poor at oral movements were not good at language, although children who were good at oral movements could fall anywhere on the distribution of language abilities. Oral motor skills may be a necessary precursor for language skills.Keywords: oral motor control, language development, developmental language disorders, gesture Evidence for a link between motor control and language In examining the relationship between motor control and language development and disorders, there is a contrast between the large amount that is known about limb motor control and the small amount that is known about oral motor control. For example, it has long been known that the first stages of language development occur in parallel with the first stages of gesture development, and that children whose first gestures are earlier than average usually also say their first words earlier than average (Bates et al., 1979). Recent data also show that children who are late in the onset of both spontaneous communicative gesture and spoken language are more likely to remain delayed than those who start making communicative gestures at a typical age but whose speech is also delayed (Thal et al., 1997). There is also a strong association between limb motor control difficulties and language impairment (Hill, 2001), which appear to share a common genetic basis (Bishop, 2002). This imbalance in research exists despite the fact that the majority of language users speak, rather than sign. We now turn to work on the development of oral motor skills. Oral motor developmentThere has been little work to date on how oral motor control develops in children, and much of this has been concentrated on the feeding behaviour of young infants or developmentally disabled children (a selection of recent work includes Fucile et al., 2005;Johnson & Harris, 2004;Mason et al., 2005;Rogers & Arvedson, 2005), with no investigation...

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“…In accordance with the importance of OS, several studies using objective and quantifiable assessment tools to assess OS have been reported (7)(8)(9)15,16). However, most of these studies have focused on OS in elderly people.…”

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Changes in oral stereognosis of healthy adults by age

Park

2017

J Oral Sci

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Rehabilitation for dysfunctions of eatingand swallowing should be considered in terms of not only motor but also sensory function. Sensory information from a bolus in the mouth plays an important role in eating and swallowing. Therefore, this study investigated oral stereognosis in 184 healthy adults with normal eating and swallowing function in order to obtain normative data. Oral stereognosis was assessed by using 20 intra-oral test pieces with different shapes. The subjects manipulated the test pieces in the mouth and identified their shapes. At this time, the test scores and response times for answering were recorded. The results revealed differences in oral stereognosis depending on the age of the subjects and the test pieces employed. The younger group had higher test scores and shorter response times than the older group, except for comparisons between the 20s and 30s age groups. In addition, response time was negative correlated with test scores (r = −0.956, P < 0.001). These results indicate that oral stereognosis decreases with age.

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Oral ability to recognize forms and oral motor ability in 11‐year‐old children*

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

Lingual tactile acuity and food texture preferences among children and their mothers

Lingual tactile acuity and food texture preferences among children and their mothers

The development of oral motor control and language

Changes in oral stereognosis of healthy adults by age

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