A Pilot Investigation on the Relationship Between Infant Vocal Characteristics at 12 Months and Speech Motor Impairment at 4-5 Years.

IF 2.2 2区医学 Q1 AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research Pub Date : 2025-07-29 Epub Date: 2025-05-05 DOI:10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00340

Helen L Long, Sydney Jensen, Katherine C Hustad

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Abstract

Purpose: The objective of this pilot study was to investigate the relationship between infant vocal characteristics and later speech motor impairment in children at risk for cerebral palsy (CP) to inform the early prediction of speech motor impairment.

Method: Vocal complexity, volubility, and consonant inventories of 13 infants at risk of CP were examined at approximately 12 months. We examined their association with later levels of speech motor impairment as measured by the Viking Speech Scale (VSS).

Results: Children in our sample with greater speech motor impairment at age 4 years produced lower rates of developmentally complex vocalizations in infancy but showed no significant differences in vocal stage attainment, volubility, or consonant diversity.

Conclusions: Our results are in line with trends found in prior literature examining vocal characteristics of infants at risk for speech motor involvement. These results can inform data-driven hypotheses in future studies aimed at the early prediction of speech motor impairment through the study of infant vocal production.

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婴儿12个月时声音特征与4-5岁时言语运动障碍关系的初步研究。

目的：本初步研究的目的是探讨脑瘫（CP）高危儿童的婴儿声音特征与后期言语运动障碍的关系，为早期预测言语运动障碍提供依据。方法：对13例有CP危险的婴儿在大约12个月时进行嗓音复杂性、音量和辅音检查。我们通过维京语言量表（VSS）检测了它们与后期语言运动障碍水平的关系。结果：在我们的样本中，4岁时言语运动障碍较大的儿童在婴儿期的发育复杂发声率较低，但在发声阶段的成就、音量或辅音多样性方面没有显着差异。结论：我们的结果与先前研究有言语运动参与风险的婴儿的声音特征的文献趋势一致。这些结果可以为未来的研究提供数据驱动的假设，旨在通过研究婴儿发声来早期预测言语运动障碍。

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Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY-REHABILITATION

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

19.20%

发文量

538

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Mission: JSLHR publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles on the normal and disordered processes in speech, language, hearing, and related areas such as cognition, oral-motor function, and swallowing. The journal is an international outlet for both basic research on communication processes and clinical research pertaining to screening, diagnosis, and management of communication disorders as well as the etiologies and characteristics of these disorders. JSLHR seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work. Scope: The broad field of communication sciences and disorders, including speech production and perception; anatomy and physiology of speech and voice; genetics, biomechanics, and other basic sciences pertaining to human communication; mastication and swallowing; speech disorders; voice disorders; development of speech, language, or hearing in children; normal language processes; language disorders; disorders of hearing and balance; psychoacoustics; and anatomy and physiology of hearing.