Speech Sound Disorders in a Community Study of Preschool Children

Abstract

A significant number of preschool-age children with speech sound disorders (SSD) have not had contact with an SLP. These children have mild-severe SSD and would benefit from SLP intervention. Integrated SLP services within early childhood communities would enable earlier identification of SSD and access to intervention to reduce potential educational and social impacts affiliated with SSD.

Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children: Findings from a prospective population study

“…Clinically identified samples make a presupposition that all individuals with a particular disorder have been identified by clinical services or assessment. However, this may not be the case as McLeod, Harrison, McAllister and McCormack (2012) discovered in their study of speech sound disorders in a community sample. This can lead to bias affecting results and subsequent interpretations.…”

Intelligibility in Context Scale: cross-linguistic use, validity, and reliability

“…Firstly, the ICS has been used to describe the intelligibility of children (Burton, Washington, & Samms-Vaughan, 2018;Hoàng, Trà, & Cao, 2014;McCormack, McLeod, & Crowe, 2019) and adults (Crowe, Marschark, & McLeod, 2019). For example, the ICS was used to compare parents and children's perspectives about talking (McCormack et al, 2019), Secondly, the ICS has been used as a screening tool (McLeod, Harrison, McAllister, & McCormack, 2013). Thirdly, it has been used to compare children's intelligibility with different conversational partners (e.g., 'Bob is more intelligible to family members, less intelligible to strangers') or between different languages 'Bob achieved a higher average total score in Spanish than in English' (e.g., McLeod, Verdon, & International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children's Speech, 2017).…”

What Do Children with Speech Sound Disorders Think about Their Talking?

“…The Kid-dyCAT is a standardized assessment for children aged 3 to 6 years, originally designed for children who stutter. Subsequently, it has been used with a variety of clinical populations including children with SSD, 26 children with cleft lip and palate, 27 and children who stutter. 28 The KiddyCAT comprises 12 items that explore children's attitudes to talking.…”