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Lexical Selectivity of 2-Year-Old Children With and Without Repaired Cleft Palate Based on Parent Report
Adriane Baylis1,2, Linda D Vallino3, Juliana Powell4
1Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
Objective:
To determine vocabulary and lexical selectivity characteristics of children with and without repaired cleft palate at 24 months of age, based on parent report.
Participants:
Forty-nine children with repaired cleft palate, with or without cleft lip (CP±L; 25 males; 21 cleft lip and palate, 28 CP only), 29 children with a history of otitis media (OM) and ventilation tubes (21 males), and 25 typically developing (TD) children (13 males).
Main Outcome Measure(S):
Parent-reported expressive vocabulary was determined using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences.
Results:
Vocabulary size was reduced for children with repaired CP±L compared to children in the TD group (P = .025) but not the OM group (P = .403). Mean percentage of words beginning with sonorants did not differ across groups (P = .383). Vocabulary size predicted sonorant use for all groups (P = .001).
Conclusions:
Children with repaired CP±L exhibit similar lexical selectivity relative to word initial sounds compared to noncleft TD and OM peers at 24 months of age, based on parent report.
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