Degree Name
MS (Master of Science)
Program
Communicative Disorders
Date of Award
5-2002
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Nancy Scherer
Committee Members
James J. Fox III, A. Lynn Williams
Abstract
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.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Lowe, Krista LeAnna, "Early Academic Performance in Children with Cleft Lip and/or Palate." (2002). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 660. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/660
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.