Articulation In Children Research Articles

Defective articulation in children.

A survey was conducted among 1200 children in the age group of 5 to 12 years. The incidence of defective articulation was 10.25%. Substitution was the commonest type of defect and was present in 72.3% while distortion and omission were observed in 18.1 and 9.6% respectively. One hundred cases of defective articulation were registered in our clinic. The substitution type of defect was detected in 63 cases. The velar series were more commonly affected. Omission of single consonants was present in 11, and in combination in 4 cases. The distortion type of defect was present in 22 cases, out of these 18 had unintelligent speech. Phonetic drills were prepared according to the articular defect. Rehabilitation was attempted in 96 cases and 51 out of them attained normal speech. The auditory ability, co-operation and intelligence of the child and parents, played an important role in rehabilitation.

Monitoring and Reinforcement by Parents as a Means of Automating Articulatory Responses: II. Study of Preschool Children

To establish articulatory responses on an automatic level 10 preschool children between 4 and 6 yr. of age were given training in production of a training sound out of context and in a set of 10 words. The mother of each child was oriented to a home program by means of a video tape that demonstrated activities to be employed. An audio tape was used to orient the mothers to the identification and evaluation of speech sounds. During the first wk. of home training, each mother was to evaluate her child's articulation of a training sound in an imitative word drill situation and in elicited conversation. Candy or stickers were given to the children for correct responses. During the remaining 4 wk., each mother was to monitor daily her child's spontaneous speech and to evaluate 30 conversational productions of the training sound. Correct responses were rewarded. When an incorrect response was produced, the mother was to have the child imitate the word after her. Each mother kept a record of how many of the 30 responses were correctly articulated each day. That record plus the children's scores on sound-production tasks and talking-tasks constituted the data for analysis. For the group, sound-production task and talking-task measures obtained after training reflected better articulation than did pretreatment scores. Greater gains were made on sounds taught than on other sounds misarticulated by some of the children. Records accumulated by five of the parents also indicated improved articulation.

The influence of pre-information on the rating of articulation

This study evaluated whether pre-information influenced experienced and inexperienced speech clinicians' ratings of a child's articulation. All clinicans received the same written pre-information report, except that for one half of both groups the report ended with the statement that the child's articulation problem was mild-to-moderate and for the other half that is was moderate-to-severe. Each clinician completed a standard articulation inventory based on a video-tape presentation and then rated the child's articulation on a nine-point scale. Results on the rating scale were in the direction of the pre-information rating for each group, with the experienced groups' differences being statistically significant. Results on the inventory demonstrated the following : the expected shift for one experienced group, an unexplained very poor scoring of articulation errors by the other experienced group, and no significant difference between the inexperienced clinician groups. We conclude that on the more subjective task---the rating of an articulation problem--an examiner bias effect was noted, with the strongest effect being shown by the experienced clinicians. On the more specific tasks--articulation inventory--the results were equivocal.

Development of Articulation in Children with Cleft Palate: Pre-and post-operative Survey

Development of Articulation in Children with Cleft Palate: Pre-and post-operative Survey

Developmental Study of the Amount of Infomation Transmitted in Vowels

The present study was designed to clarify the way in which sensory motor self control function in vowel articulation in children developed, by the investigation in to the way of development of the amount of information transmitted in vowels of different age children.The result was the fact that 7-9 year old children showed the same amount of information transmitted as that of adult.

A phonological model of children's articulation competence.

A phonological model of children's articulation competence.

Disorders of language and articulation in children

Disorders of language and articulation in children

Disorders of articulation in children.

Disorders of articulation in children.

Effects of untreated ‘open bite’ malocclusion on the articulation of children

Abstract Two matched groups of children, one group with anterior ‘open bite’ malocclusions and another with ‘normal’ occlusions, were found to be significantly different in articulatory ability. In no case among the ten matched pairs did a child with the specified malocclusion equal or surpass his peer in articulation score. It was concluded that adjustments of the articulators that would tend to compensate for ‘open bite’ malocclusion, which have often been observed among adult speakers, had not occured among the 10- to 15-year-old children who were studied.

A study to determine the relationship between children's articulation skills and visual distortion

A study to determine the relationship between children's articulation skills and visual distortion

The effect of creative activities on the articulation of children with speech disorders∗

The effect of creative activities on the articulation of children with speech disorders∗

Stuttering--the problem today.

Stuttering has been recognized as a speech disorder from time immemorial. Moses is said to have been a stutterer. In spite of this there are only a few basic facts known about the disorder. Stuttering is not limited to nor is it more common in certain levels of society. It afflicts the rich and the poor, the great and the near great, the statesman, the professional man, the scientist and the laborer. It occurs in about 1 to 2 per cent of the population. It is more common in boys than in girls, the proportion being approximately 4 to 1, and its tendency to persist is more common among boys. The condition always begins in early childhood and oddly enough occurs during those years when the child's articulation as a whole tends to improve and become more distinct. Stuttering may be defined as the disturbance in the rhythm of speech

On Certain Defects of Articulation in Children, with Cases Illustrating the Results of Education on the Oral System

Case I.—The patient was a boy, aged eleven, who came under my care in August, 1889. His father died in Colney Hatch Asylum ten years previously, but the form of insanity was doubtful. The mother was alive and healthy. There was only one other child, a girl, aged fifteen; she was healthy, intelligent, articulated perfectly, and was right-handed.