Early Academic Performance in Children with Cleft Lip and/or Palate.

<p>Studies of preschool children have shown early speech and language deficits in children with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP). For some children, the deficits during kindergarten diminish as they begin school while some children continue to show delays. The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between speech and language skills and early reading skills of phonological awareness, letter identification, and rapid naming in children with and without CLP. The subjects, four kindergarten children with and four without CLP, were administered a battery of speech, language, early reading skills, and nonverbal cognition measures. Two-way analysis of variance for groups and matched pairs and correlational analyses were performed. The results revealed that the cleft group performed poorer than the noncleft group on most of the speech, language, and early reading measures. Significant correlations were found between the speech and grammatical language measures and the early reading measures.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MS (Master of Science)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - unrestricted

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communicative Disorders

Year dc:date.issued

2002

Author dc:creator

• Lowe, Krista LeAnna

• Speech-language Impairment
• Early Reading Skills
• Phonological Awareness
• Cleft Palate
• Reading Disabilities
• Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Medicine and Health Sciences

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/660

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-1817