title: Oral language characteristics of adult cleft-palate speakers compared on the basis of cleft type and sex.
abstract: Several language measures were administered to 103 cleft-palate adults and analyses were carried out with the subjects classified according to type of cleft (cleft palate only, unilateral cleft lip and palate, bilateral cleft lip and palate) and sex. Between-group differences according to cleft type and sex indicate that patients with cleft lip and palate have better speech and language skills than the cleft-palate-only groups. The results of this study also suggest that females have more complete sentence structure than male cleft-lip and palate subjects. Appropriate habilitative measures should continue through later ages until the cleft-palate individuals gain acceptable levels of communication.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000523:psychology*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D013065:Speech Intelligibility