TY - JOUR
T1 - Early speech and language intervention in Brazilian-Portuguese toddlers with cleft lip and/or palate
AU - Scherer, Nancy J.
AU - Yamashita, Renata
AU - de Oliveira, Debora Natalia
AU - DiLallo, Jennifer
AU - Trindade, Inge
AU - Fukushiro, Ana Paula
AU - Richards, Kacey
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by NIDCD (Grant No: R03 DC013527) and approved by the Internal Review Boards of Arizona State University and the Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofaciais – Universidade de São Paulo (HRAC–USP).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Young children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CL/P) are at risk for early vocabulary and speech sound production delays. Early intervention studies have shown some promising findings to promote early speech and vocabulary development following palate repair; however, we know little about how these interventions can be used in other international contexts. This study adapted an early speech and language intervention developed in the US, Enhanced Milieu Teaching with Phonological Emphasis (EMT+PE), to the Brazilian context at the Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies at the University of São Paulo-Bauru. The purpose of this study was to compare the speech and language performance of 24 toddlers with CL/P randomized into an EMT+PE intervention group and a business-as–usual (BAU) comparison group over three time points: prior to, immediately following, and three months after intervention. Results immediately following intervention indicate gains in multiple measures of language. Three months following intervention, participants showed gains in both language and speech measures.
AB - Young children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CL/P) are at risk for early vocabulary and speech sound production delays. Early intervention studies have shown some promising findings to promote early speech and vocabulary development following palate repair; however, we know little about how these interventions can be used in other international contexts. This study adapted an early speech and language intervention developed in the US, Enhanced Milieu Teaching with Phonological Emphasis (EMT+PE), to the Brazilian context at the Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies at the University of São Paulo-Bauru. The purpose of this study was to compare the speech and language performance of 24 toddlers with CL/P randomized into an EMT+PE intervention group and a business-as–usual (BAU) comparison group over three time points: prior to, immediately following, and three months after intervention. Results immediately following intervention indicate gains in multiple measures of language. Three months following intervention, participants showed gains in both language and speech measures.
KW - Brazilian Portuguese
KW - Cleft palate
KW - early intervention
KW - enhanced milieu teaching
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U2 - 10.1080/02699206.2021.1912187
DO - 10.1080/02699206.2021.1912187
M3 - Article
C2 - 33899624
AN - SCOPUS:85105073401
SN - 0269-9206
VL - 36
SP - 34
EP - 53
JO - Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
JF - Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
IS - 1
ER -