title: Speech processing in children with functional articulation disorders.
abstract: This study explored auditory speech processing and comprehension abilities in 5-8-year-old monolingual Hungarian children with functional articulation disorders (FADs) and their typically developing peers. Our main hypothesis was that children with FAD would show co-existing auditory speech processing disorders, with different levels of these skills depending on the nature of the receptive processes. The tasks included (i) sentence and non-word repetitions, (ii) non-word discrimination and (iii) sentence and story comprehension. Results suggest that the auditory speech processing of children with FAD is underdeveloped compared with that of typically developing children, and largely varies across task types. In addition, there are differences between children with FAD and controls in all age groups from 5 to 8 years. Our results have several clinical implications.
authors.affiliation: Phonetics Department, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Budapest , Hungary.
authors.forename: Mária
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gósy
authors.forename: Viktória
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Horváth
mesh_terms: D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001308:Auditory Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D032882:Comprehension; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008297:Male; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013067:Speech Perception; D013070:Speech Therapy
keywords: Children with functional articulation disorder; sentence and non-word repetitions; sound discrimination; story comprehension