Concurrent Predictors of Supplementary Sign Use in School-Aged Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Manual sign is a common alternative mode of communication taught to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Gesture use is positively related to later increases in vocabulary and syntactic complexity in typical development, but there is little evidence supporting the use of manual sign for children with CAS. We sought to identify the communicative functions of signs and gestures produced by children with CAS and to identify concurrent factors suggesting which children are more likely to benefit from sign-supported speech intervention.

Method

Measures of receptive and expressive language were gathered from 19 children (ages 3.8-11.1 years) with CAS in a school-based sign-supported speech program. Fourteen of the children produced a total of 145 manual signs,

SUBMITTER: Chenausky KV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9913131 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature