• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.87-99
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• 2022

A review regarding indicators used in Korean research is needed to develop a diagnostic marker system for Korean children with speech sound disorders (SSD). This literature review examined the research conducted to reveal the characteristics of children with SSD of unknown origin in Korea. The researchers in Korea used diverse variables as indicators to identify the natures of children with SSD. These included indicators related to external characteristics of speech sound and comorbid features other than external aspects of speech sound. The attention has been focused on specific indicators so far. This result implies that some indicators may still require closer study in various aspects due to their influence, and some may require more attention due to the limited number of research. This article argues that more research is necessary to comprehensively describe the unique characteristics of children with SSD of unknown origin and suggests a direction for future research regarding diagnostic markers and subtype classification of SSD. It also proposes potential diagnostic markers and a set of assessments for the subtype classification of SSD.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2021

The aim of this study is to prepare basic data that can be used for evaluation and intervention by investigating the characteristics of diphthongs produced by children with speech sound disorders. To confirm this, two groups of 10 children each, with and without speech sound disorders were asked to imitate the meaningless two-syllable 'diphthongs + da'. The slope of F1 and F2, amount of change of formant, and duration of glide were analyzed by Praat (version 6.1.16). As a result, the difference between the two groups was found in the slope of F1 of /ju/. Children with speech sound disorders had smaller changes in formants and shorter duration time values compared to normal children, and there were statistically significant differences. The amount of change in formant in the glide was found in F1 of /ju, jɛ/, F2 of /jɑ, jɛ/, and there were significant differences in the duration of glide in /ju, jɛ/. The results of this study showed that the range of articulation of diphthongs in children with speech sound disorders is relatively smaller than that of normal children, thus the time it takes to articulate was reduced. These results suggest that the range of articulation and acoustic analysis should be further investigated for evaluation and intervention regarding diphthongs of children with speech sound disorders.

• Therapeutic Science for Rehabilitation
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.67-78
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• 2019

Objective : The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of hand tapping on the accuracy and the fluency of speech production in children with speech sound disorder(SSD) and their typically developing peers(TD). Methods : The study subjects were 15 SSD children and 15 TD children aged 4, 5, and 6 years of age. Subjects were asked to give a picture name without hand tapping in the first experimental condition, and with hand tapping in the second experiment condition. Results : The results showed that hand tapping significantly increased disfluency in TD, whereas in SSD. it did not affect the accuracy or fluency of speech production. In addition, TD demonstrated a significant positive correlation with the changes of accuracy and disfluency due to hand tapping, whereas SSD had no correlation. Conclusion : We discussed the possibility that hand tapping could serve as an obstacle distracting attention from SSD and TD, acting as a motor gesture to facilitate phonological processing when facing the difficulty in lexical retrieval for SSD.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.59-69
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• 2024

Among the subgroups of speech sound disorder (SSD), the motor speech disorder (MSD) group is characterized by weak articulatory force. This study quantitatively measured and compared articulatory muscle strength between SSD and typically developing (TD) children. The Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) was used to measure lip and tongue strength in 15 children with SSD and 15 TD children. We additionally measured peak lip and tongue pressure and endurance, and analyzed the correlation between each strength measure and the percentage of consonants correct (PCC). The findings were as follows: First, lip strength for the bilabial sounds did not differ between the two groups in the initial position but was significantly weaker in the SSD group in the final position. Tongue strength for alveolar sounds was weaker in the SSD group than in the TD group for the initial and final positions. Second, for lip and tongue strength, the difference in voicing features was significant in the TD group but not in the SSD group. Third, the peak pressure and endurance of the lips and tongue were significantly lower in the SSD group than in the TD group. Fourth, significantly higher static correlations were observed between most strength measures and the PCC. These findings suggest that weakness in articulatory motor execution may be an unrecognized underlying problem of SSD with unknown origin.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.244-244
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• 2003

말소리의 생성 및 전달에서 화자의 청각적 피드백은 말소리 발달에 중요한 부분을 차지한다(고도흥 외, 2000). 그러나 청각장애 아동의 경우, 청각적인 피드백이 부족하여 말소리 발달과 언어발달에서 지체를 보이게 된다. 특히 이러한 말소리 발달은 아동의 말명료도에 큰 영향을 미치게 되고, 국내외 여러 학자들은 청각장애 아동의 말 산출에 대한 연구를 활발하게 하고 있다. 그러나 현재 국내의 연구 중 이중모음에 대한 연구는 거의 없는 실정이다. 국내의 청각장애 성인이나 아동을 대상으로 한 연구들은 대부분 연구자의 지각적이고 주관적인 입장에서 이루어지고 있다. 좀더 객관적인 연구 자료는 임상적인 목적뿐만 아니라 말소리 발달의 연구에서 필요하다. 따라서 이 연구는 청각장애 아동의 이중모음의 특징을 음향음성학적인 방법으로 객관적으로 분석하여 그 자료를 제시하고, 건청 아동과의 비교를 통해 임상적인 자료를 제시하고자 한다. (중략)

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.29-36
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• 2024

A speech processing model based on a psycholinguistic approach can identify the specific speech processing deficits of children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) through various pathways. In most cases, the cause of the speech problem with SSD children is unknown, so it is important to identify the underlying strengths and weaknesses for individualized intervention. In addition, because the native language deficits can also affect foreign language production, it is necessary to examine speech processing abilities between the two languages. This study is a preliminary study to develop a Korean-English speech processing task system. Speech production task and speech processing task (DT, PRT, NRT) were conducted both in Korean and English on 10 children with SSD and 20 normal children (NSA). As a result, the SSD group showed significantly lower production ability than the NSA group in both languages. As a result of the speech processing task, there was no significant difference in the discrimination task (DT), while there was a significant difference between language types in the phonological representation task (PRT) and between language types and groups in the nonword repetition task (NRT). The results of this study confirmed that children's native language and foreign language processing skills may be different, and that the sub-tasks of speech processing system should be further subdivided.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.106-112
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• 1996

조음장애(articulation disorders)란 조음기관(예 : 혀, 입술. 치아, 입천장)을 통하여 말소리가 만들어지는 과정에서의 결함을 나타내는데, 이러한 조음장애를 보이는 아동은 '불명료한' 구어를 사용하게 되므로 해서 결국 의사소통의 어려움을 나타내게 된다. 음소를 생략하거나, 다른 음소로 대치하거나, 또는 같은 음소내에서 소리를 왜곡시키는 조음 장애 현상들은 순수 조음 장애 아동들 뿐 아니라, 정신지체, 청각장애, 구개파열, 뇌성마비 등의 장애자들에게서 중복적인 결함으로 나타나기도 한다. 본고에서는 소아의 조음장애를 다루는 임상가가 알아두어야 할 관련 요인들, 조음 오류 평가. 그리고 치료방법에 대하여 고찰하고자 한다.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.49-55
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• 2024

This study aims to develop a three-sentence speech screening test to evaluate speech development in 4-year-old children and provide standards for comparison with peers. Screening tests were conducted on 24 children each in the first and second halves of 4 years old. The screening test results showed a correlation of .7 with the existing speech disorder evaluation test results. We compared whether there was a difference between the two groups of 4-year-old in the phonological development indicators and error patterns obtained through the screening test. The developmental indicators of the children in the second half were high, but there were no statistically significant differences. The Korean Speech Sound Analysis Tool (KSAT) was used for all analyses, and the automatic analysis results and contents of the clinician's manual analysis were compared. The degree of agreement between the automatic and manual error pattern analyses was 93.63%. The significance of this study is that the standard of speech of a 4-year-old child of the speech screening test according to three sentences at the level of elicited sentences, and the applicability of the KSAT were reviewed in both clinical and research fields.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.239-239
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• 2003

연구목적 : 본 연구의 목적은 청각장애 아동들이 실제적으로 소리를 듣는 능력과 말소리를 이해하고 표현하는 언어 능력과 어떠한 관계가 있는가에 대해서 알아보고자 하는데 있다. 일반적으로 청각통합 능력은 청각장애 아동의 듣기 능력을 측정할 수 있는 대표적인 검사도구이며, MCDI-K는 부모가 언어능력을 평가할 수 있는 도구이다. 이 두 가지 모두 부모가 평가할 수 있는 도구이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 청각통합 능력, 언어이해능력, 언어표현능력이 연령과 교육받은 시기와 어떠한 관계가 있는 가 알아보기 위해서 실시하였다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.125-132
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• 2018

This study was to investigate the speech sound production characteristics and evaluation aspects of preschool children through word test and connected speech test. For this, the authors conducted Assessment of Phonology and Articulation for Children(APAC) to 72 normal children(24 three-, four-, and five-year-olds each) and analyzed difference in percent of correct consonant(PCC) and intelligibility according to age and sex, correlation between PCC and intelligibility, and speech sound error patterns. PCC and intelligibility increased with age but there was no difference according to sex. The correlation was statistically significant in 5-year-old group. Speech sound error patterns were different in the two tests. This study showed that children's speech sound production varied according to language unit. Therefore, both types of tests should be done to grasp their speech sound production ability properly. This suggests that current standard to identify language impairment only by PCC of word level requires review and further studies.