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Article: Study data from J.L. Preston and co-authors update knowledge of speech.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 27, 2009
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"Children with residual speech sound errors are often underserved clinically, yet there has been a lack of recent research elucidating the specific deficits in this population. Adolescents aged 10-14 with residual speech sound errors (RE) that included rhotics were compared to normally speaking peers on tasks assessing speed and accuracy of speech production," scientists in the United States report (see also Speech).
"The two groups were evaluated on an oral diadochokinetic task, which required rapid production of the trisyllable /p t k /, and two rapid naming tasks: monosyllabic letter names and multisyllabic picture names. No significant group differences were ...