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Volume 39, Issue 1
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Taeko Adachi, Tatsuya Koeda1998 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 1-4
Published: January 20, 1998
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSWe reported a boy with bilateral opercular syndrome caused by perinatal difficulty who showed dysgraphia. He progressed well in word and sentence comprehension during four year therapy, but spelling abilities were not acquired. Analysis of spelling errors clarified impairment of verbal comprehension, which improved with slow speech presentation, and impairment of phonological reconstruction. We speculated that these impairments were caused by his cerebral lesions.View full abstractDownload PDF (2811K) -
Toshiko Nakajima1998 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 5-8
Published: January 20, 1998
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSWe compared the results of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) among three groups of 4-5 year old children. Group 1 (n=43) and Group 2 (n=20) consisted of children with repaired clefts of the lip and palate. Group 1 needed articulaion treatment but Group 2 did not. Group 3 (n=32) was a control group. Children who had other complications were excluded. Also, subjects were restricted to children whose Performance Intelligence Quotient (PIQ) was 80 or more. The mean Verbal Intelligence Quotient (VIQ) was significantly lower than the PIQ in all groups. Also, the mean difference between VIQ and PIQ was significantly larger in Groups 1 and 2 than in Group 3. There were no significant differences between the two cleft palate groups. These results indicate that the two cleft palate groups have some common problems of language development which are causing the large VIQ-PIQ difference.View full abstractDownload PDF (479K) -
—Observation with Ultrasonic Tomography—Masako Abe, Miyoko Ishige, Kouichi Mori, Seiji Niimi1998 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 9-15
Published: January 20, 1998
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study investigated the articulatory movements of lateral articulation. During lateral articulation, air flows from the lateral portion of the oral cavity instead of the central portion. Four cases of lateral articulation were observed using ultrasonic tomography and dynamic palatography.
The results are summarized as follows.
1) When the posterior portion of the tongue was observed by ultrasonic tomography at the frontal sections during normal articulation, the tongue surface contours were flat. Observations during lateral articulations showed that the tongue would move upward before lateralized segment of a word, and on only one side of the tongue the edge would move rapidly downward during lateralized segment of the word. These movements are similar to movements at the point of articulation during normal articulation.
2) Contacts between the tongue and the hard palate were observed using dynamic palatography. During lateral articulation, the tongue kept contacting with the hard palate. There was no space at the center of the oral cavity where air could be exhaled.
These results show that the pathological speech sounds of lateral articulation are produced by the edge of the posterior portion of the tongue. Since the tongue is in contact with the hard palate during articulation, production of speech sounds seems to be accomplished with the expiratory air flowing between the buccal mucosa and the dental arch.View full abstractDownload PDF (7546K) -
Takashi Tachimura, Hideyasu Koh, Mayumi Yoneda, Hisanaga Hara, Takeshi ...1998 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 16-23
Published: January 20, 1998
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis is a case report of a stroke patient suffering from persistent velopharyngeal incompetence which was successfully improved through continuous usage of a Palatal Lift Prosthesis (PLP) . Change in velopharyngeal function was estimated on the basis of findings of nasopharyngeal fiberscopy and electromyography of the levator veli palatini muscle, which were carried out both immediately after construction of the PLP and six months after the construction. The results obtained here suggested that improvement of velopharyngeal incompetence through long-term usage of a PLP might be caused by normalization of the input system for sensory information such as oral air pressure, prevention of fatigue of muscles related to velopharyngeal function through decrease in muscle activitiy for sounds requiring greater activity in the removal condition, and disuse atrophy through stimulation of muscle activity for other sounds of nasals and vowels.View full abstractDownload PDF (5166K) -
—Analyses of Language Test Scores and Speech Samples—Kiyoshi Otomo, Yoko Wakaba, Takahiro Nara1998 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 24-33
Published: January 20, 1998
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study examined language skills of nine extremely low birth weight children (<1, 000 g) and seven normal birth weight children at 5 years of age. Language skills were assessed by a standardized language test (ITPA) and analysis of speech samples obtained during 1) a free-play setting and 2) a sequential picture description task. Mean length of utterances (MLU) and mean number of Jiritsugo words (JMLU) were calculated from speech samples. For utterances obtained in the sequential picture description task, analysis was based on T-units (Hunt, 1965) because of the subjects' frequent use of main clause coordination. Results showed that both language test scores and syntactic complexity indices were lower for the low birth weight children than for the normal controls. Furthermore, syntactic complexity indices were found to correlate with language test scores. These findings suggest that speech sample analysis is a valuable means to evaluate a child's productive language skills.View full abstractDownload PDF (1349K) -
1998 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 39-127
Published: January 20, 1998
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1998 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 128-160
Published: January 20, 1998
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