The Cleft Care UK study. Part 4: perceptual speech outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the perceptual speech outcomes from the Cleft Care UK (CCUK) study and compare them to the 1998 Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG) audit.

Setting and sample population

A cross-sectional study of 248 children born with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate, between 1 April 2005 and 31 March 2007 who underwent speech assessment.

Materials and methods

Centre-based specialist speech and language therapists (SLT) took speech audio-video recordings according to nationally agreed guidelines. Two independent listeners undertook the perceptual analysis using the CAPS-A Audit tool. Intra- and inter-rater reliability were tested.

Results

For each speech parameter of intelligibility/distinctiveness, hypernasality, palatal/palatalization, bac

SUBMITTER: Sell D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4670716 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature