Children with language disorder frequently experience difficulties vocabulary acquisition, and these often persist into adolescence. The literature indicates that clinical studies tend to investigate phonological-semantic approaches, whereas educational focus on the derivation of meaning within a literacy context. Little is known about whether practices speech therapists teachers reflect findin...

A companion paper addresses the need for phenotype markers for speech-genetics studies and provides reference data for US English rhotics that can be used for phenotype research. The present paper uses these reference data to derive and test an acoustic marker to discriminate the residual / / distortions of adolescents with two speech disorder histories. One speech disorder history includes sig...

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there are differences in vocabulary, grammar, pragmatics, and early literacy skills according subgroups speech sound disorders (SSDs). Additionally, attempted examine language ability could predict the subtype SSDs suggested by Dodd’s model for differential diagnosis. Methods: Sixty-two children with aged 3-9 years were classified ...

This selected overview of audiovisual (AV) speech perception examines the influence of visible articulatory information on what is heard. Thought to be a cross-cultural phenomenon that emerges early in typical language development, variables that influence AV speech perception include properties of the visual and the auditory signal, attentional demands, and individual differences. A brief revi...

PURPOSE: The present study examined associations of 5 endophenotypes (i.e., measurable skills that are closely associated with speech sound disorders and are useful in detecting genetic influences on speech sound production), oral motor skills, phonological memory, phonological awareness, vocabulary, and speeded naming, with 3 clinical criteria for classifying speech sound disorders: severity o...