Screening the speech of young patients with sickle cell disease.
Ten percent of 50 young patients with sickle cells disease failed a speech screening. Such a failure rate is higher than expected and suggests that routine speech screening should be conducted.
Gentry
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Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock 72204, USA.
Dancer
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology