Phonological Characteristics of Early Vocabulary among Children with Cleft Palate, Late Talking Children, and Typically Developing Children

Early Speech and Language Development: A Comparison of Typically Developing Children to Children with Cleft Palate

Early Speech and Language Development: A Comparison of Typically Developing Children with Children with Cleft Palate by Holly J. McGahey Previous research has shown that parent implemented intervention is effective in increasing the speech and language development of children with cleft lip and palate. To further determine the efficacy of this intervention, this study compared the speech and la...

Production and Perception of the Voiceless Sibilant Fricatives in Typically Developing Children with Applications for Children with Cleft Palate

oral stereognosis in children with cleft palate and normal children

patients and methods the study population comprised 20 children with cleft palate, six to nine years old, after first surgery, with normal intelligence, and 40 normal children with normal iq levels and no speech-language disorders. in this cross-sectional study, oral stereognosis was investigated by identification of objects with different shapes and surface alterations, when placed in the mout...

Fordyce Happiness Program and Happiness in Mothers of Children with a Cleft Lip and Palate

Introduction: Facial deformities and aesthetic and functional anomalies in children may be a cause of real distress in families. Problems faced by parents in coping with a child’s anomaly can be upsetting and lead parents to exhibit over-severe behavior. The present study was conducted in order to study the effect of happiness program on the happiness of the mothers of children with a cleft lip...

Evaluation of Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary in 6-18 Month’s-old Children With Cleft Lip and Palate

Objectives: One of the factors predicting language impairments is an early limited lexicon in children. An early limited lexicon can also lead to limited performances in other language areas. This study was aimed to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary in 8-16 month-old children with cleft lip and palate as a predictor of development in other language areas. Materials: The MacArthur-Bat...