خلاصة:
Objectives: One of the factors predicting language impairments is an early limited lexicon
in children. An early limited lexicon can also lead to limited performances in other language
areas. This study was aimed to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary in 8-16 monthold
children with cleft lip and palate as a predictor of development in other language areas.
Materials: The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) was used to
collect data. Thirty children with cleft palate/lip and palate who had visited the Isfahan’s cleft
lip and palate team were analyzed and compared to 30 children without cleft lip and palate.
Results: According to the study results, there was no significant difference between the
children with cleft lip and palate and the normal children in terms of the number of words,
but the children with cleft lip and palate had significantly less expressive vocabulary than the
normal children.
Discussion: The results indicated that children with cleft lip and palate experience a delay in
the development of the number of expressive vocabulary, and this delay affects higher levels
of language, reading and writing skills of these children. This indicates the importance of
providing early evaluations and interventions for children with cleft lip and palate.
ملخص الجهاز:
Evaluation of Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary in 6-18 Month’s-old Children With Cleft Lip and Palate Leila Sedaghati1, Akbar Darouie1*, Fatemeh Derakhshande2, Mehrdad Memarzade3, Behzad Mahaki4 1.
3. 151 Article info: Received: 11 Feb. 2016 Accepted: 19 Jun. 2016 Keywords: Cleft lip and palate, Receptive vocabulary, Expressive vocabulary A B S T R A C T Objectives: One of the factors predicting language impairments is an early limited lexicon in children.
This study was aimed to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary in 8-16 month- old children with cleft lip and palate as a predictor of development in other language areas.
Discussion: The results indicated that children with cleft lip and palate experience a delay in the development of the number of expressive vocabulary, and this delay affects higher levels of language, reading and writing skills of these children.
Yong (2010) compared 43 Chinese Singaporean pre- school children with CLP aged between 3-6 years to their normal matches in terms of expressive use of vocabulary and language structure.
In a longitudi- nal study, Broen (1998) compared a group of children with CLP with a matched normal group in terms of early cognitive and language development.
Consistent with the current study results, Lu and Fletcher (2010) also found that all the children with unrepaired cleft lip and palate had lower performances in vocabulary comprehension and expression compared to the normal group; this study is similar to the present study in terms of using the CDI.