Background 'Speech sound disorder'is an umbrella term that encompasses dysarthria,
articulation disorders, childhood apraxia of speech and phonological disorders. However …

Background The long-term associations between early receptive/expressive lexical skills
and later language/pre-literacy skills require clarification. Aims To study the association …

Consistency of word production contributes to carers' ability to understand children's speech.
Reports of the proportion of words produced consistently by typically developing preschool …

Studies of children's consistency of word production allow identification of speech sound
disorder. Inconsistent errors are reported for two groups of children: childhood apraxia of …

Purpose This study investigates consonant and vowel accuracy and whole-word variability
(also called token-to-token variability or token-to-token inconsistency) in bilingual Spanish …

Purpose This clinical focus article provides readers with a description of the stimulus
characteristics of 12 popular tests of speech sound production. Method Using significance …

Past studies have shown incontrovertible evidence for the existence of covert contrasts in
children's speech, ie differences between target productions that are nonetheless …

Purpose Previous work suggests that variability across repeated productions of the same
word may be useful in diagnosing speech sound disorder (SSD) in bilingual children …

The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between speech inconsistency,
speech production skills, phonological awareness and nonword repetition (NWR) in 24 …

Purpose Variability has been interpreted in differing ways according to context (eg,
development, speech impairment, and learning). A challenge arises when interpreting …