Promoting Speech and Vocabulary Development through Specialized Storybooks in Children with and without Cleft Palate.

<p>This study investigated changes in vocabulary and speech production in response to storybooks embedded with specialized language prompts and speech recasts. Six children received intervention, 3 with cleft palate (CLP), displaying speech-language delays, and 3 with nonclefts, each 12-24 months of age. A multiple baseline design across behaviors was implemented by a clinician. Results indicated all children increased use of target vocabulary and production of stop consonants, while reducing compensatory articulation errors. Generalization of targets to a picture-naming task, a free-play task, and to the home was observed. Effect sizes were moderate-to-high. Children with CLP required more sessions to achieve criterion. Analysis of 20-minute language samples, collected pre- and post-intervention, showed that both groups increased their vocabulary and speech 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

2008

Author dc:creator

• Smith, Joellyn Ruth

• speech pathology
• early intervention
• cleft palate
• Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Medicine and Health Sciences
• Speech Pathology and Audiology

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1939

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-3291