During the first eighteen months of life, infants acquire and refine a whole set of new motor
skills that significantly change the ways in which the body moves in and interacts with the …

Purpose Speech and other oral functions such as swallowing have been compared and
contrasted with oral behaviors variously labeled quasispeech, paraspeech, speechlike, and …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE; An Advanced Textbook; Eighth Edition Page 1 DOI: 10.4324/9781003387145-8
Introduction: The Importance of Motor Development Motor behavior is critical to developmental …

Within the neurocognitive literature there is much debate about the role of the motor system
in language, social communication and conceptual processing. We suggest, here, that …

Although the development of spoken language is dependent on the emergence of cognitive,
language, and speech motor skills, knowledge about how these domains interact during the …

Purpose The purpose of this research was to examine spatial and temporal aspects of
articulatory control in children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), children with speech …

The acquisition and mastery of speech-motor control requires years of practice spanning the
course of development. People who stutter often perform poorly on speech-motor tasks …

Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs) is a generic term used to describe a range of difficulties
producing speech sounds in children. The foundations of clinical assessment, classification …

The aim of this study was to assess factors affecting language developmental screening test
results in 33.0-to 75.0-month-old children. The study group consists of 402 children, 172 …