SPEECH DIFFERENCES AMONG CEREBRAL PALSY SUBCLASSES

Speech adequacy ratings were collected on a nationwide sample of 497 children with cerebral palsy. Differences in speech ability between type of condition, degree of physical involvement, and chronological age were investigated. Significant differences in speech were reported between (a) spastics and athetoids and (b) three levels of physical involvement. No meaningful differences were found with regard to chronological age.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF CEREBRAL PALSIED AND OTHER CRIPPLED CHILDREN AS A FUNCTION OF TWO SPEAKING RATES

This study attempted to determine the amount of learning which would take place among cerebral palsied children and noncerebral palsied crippled children as compared under conditions of listening to a normal speaking rate (175 wpm) and a rapid rate (275 wpm). There were significant differences between the two samples on the comprehension test of the selection presented at 175 wpm but, contrary to expectation, the samples did not differ significantly on comprehension of the selection presented at 275 wpm.

CHILD CARE IN GENERAL PRACTICE. CEREBRAL PALSY. I

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CRANIO-OROPHARYNGEAL MOTOR PATTERNS IN DYSARTHRIA ASSOCIATED WITH CEREBRAL PALSY

Fifty-one cerebral palsied individuals were tested for a complex of primitive cranio-oropharyngeal motor patterns. This study explored the incidence of these patterns and their relationship to age, feeding competence, speech intelligibility, and speech therapy progress. The patterns were often present in CP individuals in all age groups examined but, generally, were less numerous and of longer latency as age increased. Adequacy of speech, speech therapy progress, and feeding were found to decrease as the number of patterns shown increased and as the latency of pattern response decreased.