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• Title: Motor Speech Characteristics of Children with Autism
• Author : Richa Deshmukh
• Release Date : January 19, 2013
• Genre: Medical,Books,Professional & Technical,Science & Nature,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 9285 KB

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A considerable number of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) do not acquire spoken communication. Children with ASD exhibit general motor planning impairments and therefore it has been postulated that in addition to socio-pragmatic difficulties, children with ASD may exhibit speech motor impairment that adds to their difficulty in learning to speak. In order to test the hypothesis that children with high functioning autism (HFA) have difficulties with speech motor control, speech motor performance of 13 children with HFA, in the age range of 4-10 yrs was compared to that of age-matched children with motor speech disorders (MSD, n =11), and those developing typically (TD, n = 13). Overall, although the TD group performed best, followed by the HFA group then the MSD group, only differences involving the MSD group reached statistical significance. In addition, no significant correlation was found between the speech motor scores and the expressive vocabulary. However, 15% of the children with HFA did exhibit a speech delay as reflected by their scores on the GFTA-2. These results suggest that children with HFA do not have speech motor deficits, but have an increased risk for speech delay as compared to the population risk reported in the literature.

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