Speech production abilities of 4- to 5-year-old children with and without a history of late talking: The tricky tyrannosaurus.
Purpose: Research on the speech production abilities of children with a history of late talking (HLT) is limited. We compared 4- to 5-year-old children with and without a HLT on a routine speech assessment and a single-word polysyllable assessment.Method: The two speech assessments were administered to 13 children with a HLT (4;4-5;9 years) and 11 children with a history of typical development (HTD) (4;1-5;10 years). Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics.Result: The HLT group had significantly poorer speech accuracy than the HTD group on both the routine speech and polysyllable assessments. The HLT group also showed a significantly higher percentage occurrence of consonant omissions on both speech assessments compared to the HTD group. Descriptive analysis of participants' polysyllable productions indicated that the HLT group showed a higher percentage occurrence of a range of error types compared to the HTD group.Conclusion: By 4-5 years of age, children who were late to talk had speech production abilities that were significantly poorer than their peers who were not late to talk, suggesting continued underlying differences.
['Neam|Sze Yuen|SY|', 'Baker|Elise|E|0000-0002-9973-5925', 'Hodges|Rosemary|R|0000-0002-5558-8433', 'Munro|Natalie|N|0000-0002-5870-6378']
D002675:Child, Preschool D005260:Female D006801:Humans D007805:Language Development Disorders D008297:Male D013060:Speech D013068:Speech Production Measurement
children assessment polysyllables late talkers outcomes