Background Speech in individuals with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) is a complex myriad of
presenting symptoms. It is uniquely associated with the structural difference of …

Purpose: To systematically review the current literature to describe the speech, language,
and literacy skills of children with mild to moderate hearing loss (MMHL). Method …

Purpose: Children who are hard of hearing (CHH) are at risk for literacy difficulties. Speech
sound production is related to literacy skills in typically hearing children. Speech sound …

We propose using a dynamic time warping (DTW) difference-to-sum ratio to classify speech
as either matching or diverging from a linguistic standard. This measure effectively …

Objective This study aimed to systematically review and critically appraise the literature
describing the phonetic characteristics and accuracy of the consonants, vowels and tones …

We investigated home language (Spanish) maintenance in Spanish-and English-speaking
bilingual children with normal hearing (NH) and their peers with hearing loss (HL) who used …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how the amount of home language
use between the primary caregiver and bilingual Spanish-and English-speaking children …

Background Congenital hearing loss is the most common birth anomaly, typically influencing
speech and language development, with potential for later academic, social and …

Phonological processes are examples of normal simplified articulation seen in all children
during the language and speech sound acquisition phase, and their frequency decreases …

Purpose: This study assessed the intelligibility of obstruent consonants in prelingually
deafened Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: Twenty-two …