Early Communication Behaviors in Infants With Cleft Palate With and Without Robin Sequence: A Preliminary Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the early communication behaviors in infants with nonsyndromic isolated cleft palate (iCP) and Robin sequence (RS).

Design

Group comparison using parent report.

Participants

There were 106 participants included in this study. Two groups were selected from the UK Cleft Collective resource. Parents had completed the Language ENvironment Analysis Developmental Snapshot questionnaire when their child turned 13 months. There were 78 participants in the iCP group and 28 in the RS group.

Main outcome measure(s)

Total number of communication behaviors reported on the questionnaire. Subdomains for expressive and receptive language and social communication behaviors were also analyzed.

Results

There were no statistically significant group

SUBMITTER: van Eeden S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9272514 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature