Spatial & temporal variability of sibilants in children with down’s syndrome

Claire Timmins; Sara  Wood

Spatial & temporal variability of sibilants in children with down’s syndrome

Claire Timmins, Sara Wood

Speech And Language Therapy

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Abstract

This paper presents findings from EPG analysis of word initial /s/ and /ʃ/ in twenty five children with Down’s syndrome (DS) and ten cognitively age-matched typically developing children (TD). Spatial and temporal variability measures show evidence of increased variability in all attempts of target /s/ and /ʃ/ for the speakers with DS. The findings also show evidence of high levels of spatial variability in children with DS and typically developing children in perceptually acceptable productions of the target sounds. These findings support previous research that links speech production difficulties in children with DS to impaired speech motor ability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - ICPhS 2015
Place of Publication	Glasgow, Scotland
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 14 Aug 2015
Event	18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Aug 2015 → 14 Aug 2015 https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs/icphs2015

Conference

Conference	18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Country	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	10/08/15 → 14/08/15
Internet address	https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs/icphs2015

Keywords

Down’s syndrome
sibilant fricatives
EPG
variability

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