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Narrative Ability of Children with Speech Sound Disorders and the Prediction of Later Literacy Skills
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Wellman, Rachel L.; Lewis, Barbara A.; Freebairn, Lisa A.; Avrich, Allison A.; Hansen, Amy J.; Stein, Catherine M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to examine how children with isolated speech sound disorders (SSDs; n = 20), children with combined SSDs and language impairment (LI; n = 20), and typically developing children (n = 20), ages 3;3 (years;months) to 6;6, differ in narrative ability. The second purpose was to determine if early narrative…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Speech Impairments, Young Children, Children
Literacy Outcomes of Children with Early Childhood Speech Sound Disorders: Impact of Endophenotypes
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Lewis, Barbara A.; Avrich, Allison A.; Freebairn, Lisa A.; Hansen, Amy J.; Sucheston, Lara E.; Kuo, Iris; Taylor, H. Gerry; Iyengar, Sudha K.; Stein, Catherine M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2011
Purpose: To demonstrate that early childhood speech sound disorders (SSD) and later school-age reading, written expression, and spelling skills are influenced by shared endophenotypes that may be in part genetic. Method: Children with SSD and their siblings were assessed at early childhood (ages 4-6 years) and followed at school age (7-12 years).…
Descriptors: Spelling, Articulation (Speech), Structural Equation Models, Oral Language