The Relationship among Oral Motor, Fine Motor, Simple, and Complex Speech Skills in Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a controversial and greatly debated diagnosis in the area of pediatric speech sound disorders.Currently there is a lack of understanding of the etiology of the disorder and disagreement over the core deficits.Deficits in oral motor and fine motor praxis are commonly reported in the literature in association with childhood apraxia of speech (ASHA, 2007;Dewey, 1995;Maassen, 2002;Newmeyer et al., 2007); however, they are not validated in the research.While there are reported relationships between oral motor, fine motor, and speech praxis, the role of these relationships is yet to be determined.This study aims to provide evidence regarding the relationships between the oral-motor, fine-motor and speech skills of children with CAS.Subjects in this study were seen in the interdisciplinary apraxia clinic at Cincinnati Children"s Hospital Medical Center.To be included in the study the subjects had to be 2 to 5 years of age at the time of evaluation, receive a clinical diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), have a standard receptive language score greater than or equal to 85 to rule out receptive language deficits, and have received the Kaufman Speech Praxis Test.Subjects were excluded if they had a known neurological or developmental disorder or a known hearing loss.Pearson correlations were run, using IBM SPSS© Statistics 19 software, to determine the relationships among the standard scores of the oral movement, simple phonemic and syllabic level, and complex phonemic and syllabic level parts of the KSPT and the fine-motor quotient of the PDMS-2.A statistically significant moderate correlation (r=.523; p=.001) was found between the KSPT oral-motor standard scores and the PDMS-2 fine-motor quotients.There were no other statistically significant correlations within the data.
Author: Allison R. Flynn
Institution: University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1023463402