Journal article
Reading in Subjects With an Oral Cleft: Speech, Hearing and Neuropsychological Skills
Neuropsychology, Vol.28(3), pp.415-422
05/2014
DOI: 10.1037/neu0000024
PMCID: PMC4076825
PMID: 24188114
Abstract
Objective: To evaluate speech, hearing, and neuropsychological correlates to reading among children, adolescents, and young adults with nonsyndromic cleft of the lip and/or palate (NSCL/P). Method: All testing was completed in a single visit at a Midwestern university hospital. Subjects in both the NSCL/P (n = 80) and the control groups (n = 62) ranged in age from 7−26 years (average age = 17.60 and 17.66, respectively). Subjects completed a battery of standardized tests evaluating intelligence, neuropsychological skills, and word reading. Subjects with NSCL/P also underwent speech assessment, and past audiology records were evaluated. Results: After controlling for age and socioeconomic status, subjects with cleft performed significantly worse on a test of word reading. For subjects with cleft, word reading deficits were not associated with measures of speech or hearing, but were correlated with impairments in auditory memory. Conclusion: These findings show poorer reading among subjects with NCL/P compared with those without. Further work needs to focus on correlates of reading among subjects with cleft to allow early identification and appropriate intervention/accommodation for those at risk.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reading in Subjects With an Oral Cleft: Speech, Hearing and Neuropsychological Skills
- Creators
- Amy L Conrad - Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Children's HospitalThomasin E McCoy - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of MedicineIan DeVolder - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of MedicineLynn C Richman - Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Children's HospitalPeg Nopoulos - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
- Contributors
- Gregory G Brown (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neuropsychology, Vol.28(3), pp.415-422
- DOI
- 10.1037/neu0000024
- PMID
- 24188114
- PMCID
- PMC4076825
- NLM abbreviation
- Neuropsychology
- ISSN
- 0894-4105
- eISSN
- 1931-1559
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health, award: R01 DEO14399-05
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2014
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychiatry; Pediatric Psychology; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Craniofacial Anomalies Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984070678202771
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