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[A study on the characteristics of articulation for functional speech problem after cleft palate surgery]
Objective:
To analyze the characterisctics of articulatory errors for the patients with speech problem and whose anatomic or physiologic defect such as velopharyngeal insufficiency were not indicated after cleft palate surgery.
Methods:
Fifty patients with functional speech problem outlined above were tested using articulation test in chinese. The frequency of articulatory errors of all consonants was calculated. The interrelativity of the rate of affricates and plosives errors was analyzed.
Results:
The frequency of affricates (j. z. ch. zh. et al) errors was higher than plosive's (b.d.g.k. et al). The difference of the rate of affricates and plosives errors was significant, statiscally (P < 0.001).
Conclusion:
It is suggested that the frequency of affricates errors was principal in this type of patients. They will be cured by speech training.
