The goal of this research was to assess the support for motor speech disorders as
explanatory constructs to guide research and treatment of reduced intelligibility in persons …

Purpose A single-word identification test was used to study speech production in children
and adults with Down syndrome (DS) to determine the developmental pattern of speech …

Many children with Down syndrome have difficulty with speech intelligibility. The present
study used a parent survey to learn more about a specific factor that affects speech …

Speech intelligibility is a major problem for individuals with Down syndrome. Although there
is clinical research regarding risk factors, as well as some specific characteristics of speech …

Data collected from 937 parent questionnaires regarding intelligibility of speech in children
with Down syndrome were analyzed. Intelligibility was a widespread problem. Parents …

Background: This review gives an overview of studies on speech difficulties in adults with
Down syndrome to identify causes and major determinants of poor speech intelligibility for …

The purpose of the study was to document speech intelligibility deficits for a group of five
adult males with Down syndrome, and use listener based error profiles to identify phonetic …

Background: Children and young people with Down's syndrome present with deficits in
expressive speech and language, accompanied by strengths in vocabulary comprehension …

Although there is substantial rationale for a motor component in the speech of persons with
Down syndrome (DS), there presently are no published estimates of the prevalence of …

Purpose The aim of this study was to determine how the speech disorder profiles in Down
syndrome (DS) relate to reduced intelligibility, atypical overall quality, and impairments in …