Lexical Selectivity of 2-Year-Old Children With and Without Repaired Cleft Palate Based on Parent Report

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,...

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Published in:The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal 2020-09, Vol.57 (9), p.1117-1124
Main Authors: Baylis, Adriane, Vallino, Linda D., Powell, Juliana, Zajac, David J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birth defects
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Cleft Lip - surgery
Cleft Palate - surgery
Dentistry
Humans
Male
Males
Orofacial clefts
Parent-child relations
Sonorants
Vocabulary
Vocabulary development
Vocabulary size
Word meaning
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1055-6656
1545-1569
DOI:10.1177/1055665620915060