Language Skills in Children with Cleft Palates

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Three measures of language development were obtained from 40 children with cleft lips and cleft palates or with cleft palates only between ages of 3 and 8 who were singletons of the Caucasian race with normal mental ability and without hearing loss. Fifty responses were analyzed for mean 1. of response and structural complexity and resultant scores compared with norms. A recognition vocabulary test administered to all subjects with cleft palate children showed superior recognition of vocabulary. Cleft palate subjects demonstrated no general language retardation but were retarded on measure of amount of verbal output and vocabulary usage. Children with cleft palates are in general retarded in mean 1. of response. Their language development as measured by structural complexity is not different from that of the normal. They are in general retarded in vocabulary usage.

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