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begins babbling and producing consonant sounds. Babies with cleft palate who have a limited consonant inventory appear to produce growls more frequently than their noncleft peers and these productions persist for longer periods. Growls are of concern in this population because, as with gloal stops, they involve excessive laryngeal or pharyngeal muscular activity. Some children with severe delays in speech sound development learn to produce these behaviors early on as a substitute for oral articulations.
Whenever possible, we want to circumvent the persistence of these behaviors by having parents ignore the behavior and model an appropriate oral consonant instead. Unfortunately, growling is a cute behavior that parents often reinforce. You want to discourage parents from reinforcing these behaviors, preferably before they call your aention to this “cute thing” that their child does.
In addition to increasing the frequency of vocalizations, other goals of phonological intervention during the early stages of speech and language development should be to expand the baby's consonant inventory and range of syllable shapes (Paul and
Norbury, 2012). Both goals can be easily addressed in simple
babbling games. It is best for the parents' learning if you first describe, and then demonstrate, a turn-taking game.
• Instruct the parents to wait until their baby vocalizes or babbles, and then imitate what the baby says.
• Wait for the baby to repeat the vocalization, and then say it again.
• Once the baby begins to participate actively by vocalizing back and forth with the parent, a new consonant can be introduced into the babbling. Similarly, vowels can be practiced by increasing their duration in isolated production and in consonant-vowel (CV) productions.
• Before palatal surgery, you should advise parents to initially encourage CV syllables that the baby can easily produce, such as those containing vocalic and nasal consonants (e.g., wawa, mama, nænæ, lili).
• If oral stops such as /b/ are present prior to palatal surgery they can be reinforced as well. Parents should be informed, however, that
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oral stop consonants may sound nasal. Advise parents to ignore the nasal quality and reinforce the baby's aempts to produce these consonants.
If the baby does not readily imitate vocalizations, it may be beneficial initially to engage him or her in an activity that involves body movement (e.g., hand clapping, jumping, dancing). Performing these movements in front of a mirror where the child can see both himself or herself and you (or the parent) will likely enhance the child's interest in the activity.
• Once the baby imitates large body movements, encourage imitation of different facial expressions (e.g., happy, sad, silly).
• Gradually introduce different lip and tongue movements for imitation.
• Pair sounds with different movements (e.g., kissing), and encourage the child to imitate both the facial movement and the vocalization.
It is important to stress to the parent that the goal is not to have the baby imitate the exact sound the adult produces. The goal of babbling games during this stage of language development is to establish imitative speech sound behaviors and facilitate expansion of both the consonant and syllable shape inventory. It does not maer if the parent models one sound and the baby produces another.
Some babies with an unrepaired cleft produce a gloal stop when vocalizing or aempting to imitate an oral stop consonant. Because we always want to reward a baby for vocalizing or participating in babbling games, you should advise the parent to model an acceptable consonant when gloal stops are produced. It is important that the parents and family not reward other deviant speech productions, such as nasal fricatives and pharyngeal growls, by modeling these sounds back to the baby (Box 11-2).
Box 11-2
Do Palatal Obturators Facilitate Early Consonant Production?
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Some clinicians have questioned whether anterior palatal obturators (covering the hard palate) could be used as a treatment to facilitate early speech sound development. Theoretically, obturation of the hard palate could provide an advantage in early speech sound development because it provides the baby with an anterior articulatory surface for production of lingual consonants. Hardin­Jones et al. (2002) found no difference in size of consonant inventory or in place of consonant production between 9-month-old babies who had worn an anterior palatal obturator and those who had not. These investigators argued that although an anterior palatal obturator may cover the hard palate, the loss of air pressure through the posterior portion of the cleft in the soft palate may have a dominant effect on the baby's consonant development. Similar findings were subsequently reported by Lohmander et al. (2004) for 18-month-old babies. We should point out, however, that two studies have reported more favorable phonological performance in older children (ages 2 to 3 and 5 to 6 years) who wore these appliances (Konst et al., 2003; Suzuki et al., 2006). Currently, palatal obturators are not routinely recommended in the United States and Canada to promote early speech sound development. This is unlikely to change unless future clinical studies can demonstrate a direct impact of these appliances on speech development.
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Parents' Expectations of Palatal Surgery
As the time for palatal surgery approaches (typically a time that parents have both eagerly awaited and dreaded), parents will need to know what to expect. Most parents want to know about feeding and what restrictions will be imposed immediately after surgery. Because such information will differ depending on their surgeon, such a discussion should involve the surgeon, the surgeon's nurse, or the team SLP who should be familiar with the surgeon and the protocols. Parental expectation for speech is another issue that should be addressed before palatal surgery to ensure that parents have realistic expectations. Many children with palatal clefts undergo surgery before they begin saying words. Parents frequently assume that their child will begin talking once the surgery has been performed and that any delays previously observed will simply disappear. Unfortunately, this typically is not the case. It is important for parents to know the following:
• Frequency and variety of vocalizations may decrease immediately after surgery. It may take several weeks for the toddler to resume normal production levels, and so parents should be forewarned to maintain good interaction levels during this time.
• Provided the initial palatoplasty does the job of providing an intact palate and a velopharyngeal (VP) mechanism capable of closure, many toddlers begin adding new consonants to their phonetic inventory that were not produced before surgery (e.g., stop consonants that require oral pressure). These consonants will be evident in both babble and early words. Other toddlers may begin adding words to their expressive vocabulary but show lile, if any, growth in their phonetic inventory. Early intervention would be appropriate for this laer group of children both for diagnostic purposes (of monitoring the adequacy of the VP mechanism) and to facilitate expansion of the child's speech sound inventory.
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Lexical and Phonological Growth Following Surgery
After the repaired palate has had sufficient time to heal and the baby has recovered from the trauma of the hospitalization, parents should be advised to keep a diary of new words and consonants that their child produces. The types of consonants that the child begins producing after palatoplasty may dictate for some children whether early intervention is needed.
• Toddlers who begin adding oral stops to their inventory are demonstrating the type of phonetic growth expected after surgery, but they should be monitored periodically to ensure that their consonant inventory and expressive vocabulary continue to expand appropriately.
• Toddlers who persist in using nasal substitutions or gloal stops and those who have developed nasal fricatives should be carefully monitored. These behaviors are transient for some toddlers and disappear as their lexical and speech sound inventory expand. The persistence of these types of consonants and the absence of oral pressure consonants and stops may be early indicators of velopharyngeal inadequacy (VPI) in some children. In other children, nasal substitutions and gloal stops persist as learned behaviors and are not necessarily indicative of VPI; in these children, the abnormal productions serve as important predictors of subsequent phonological deviation and perhaps delay.
Although gloal stops are the predominant gloal productions
heard in children with cleft palate, some children use /h/ as a substitute for oral pressure targets. This gloal substitution, although atypical, is not as difficult to remediate as the gloal stop.
• Determining the adequacy of the VP mechanism is not possible immediately following palatal surgery. Assessment occurs over time as the toddler's language expands and increasingly more
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consonants are added to the phonetic inventory. For some children, evidence of VP adequacy is apparent early on as the child begins producing short sentences. For other children, assessment of VP adequacy is a long-term process that extends into the preschool years or beyond, depending on the presence and specific types of maladaptive compensatory misarticulations. The toddler in Video 11-1 was seen by one of the authors on a trip to China. Despite receiving palatal surgery at 13 months, this child's phonetic inventory was limited to nasals, glides, and gloal stops at 2 years, 10 months. Although the initial clinical impression was VPI, stimulability testing revealed that he was able to blow bubbles and produce a “raspberry” following an auditory and visual model. After a brief period of intervention (twice a day for 4 consecutive days), the child was able to produce oral stops and an oral /f/. Parents observed each session and were encouraged to work with the child at home. When the child was seen for follow­up at 4 years of age, a complete inventory of obstruent consonants was evident and speech was judged to be normal. This case underscores two important points: (1) adequacy of velopharyngeal function cannot be assessed until a child is aempting to produce obstruent consonants and (2) absence of obstruent consonants does not in and of itself imply VPI.
• It is important to evaluate the child's developing phonology in relation to (not independent of) the child's developing lexicon. We do not have the same phonological expectations for a child with a limited expressive vocabulary as we do for a child with a large expressive vocabulary. Children with small expressive vocabularies tend to have a small phonetic inventory. Paul and Jennings (1992) found that the typical 18- to 24-month-old child produces approximately 14 different consonants in a 10-minute interaction sample. In contrast, same-age peers with small expressive lexicons produce an average of 6 different consonants (Box 11-3).
Box 11-3
The Value of a Good Assessment
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An SLP cannot design a good treatment plan for toddlers when an adequate assessment has not been performed. We know from many years of research that young children with cleft palate have far more difficulty with speech sound production than they do with expressive language. However, it is not uncommon for SLPs to administer a language test and call the assessment good if the child is too young for an articulation test. Although parents can provide a lot of useful information about the sounds their toddler produces, the information they provide is usually limited to the inventory of sounds and perhaps the type of error they have heard their child produce. They cannot provide you with information about the frequency of the error (which will dictate in part the impact on intelligibility) or the nature of the error paern (is it developmental or cleft-related?), and that information is critical to customizing a good treatment plan for a child. If you plan to initiate articulation or phonological treatment, you need to administer an articulation test or obtain an adequately long speech sample and analyze it.
Finally, not every error that a child with a cleft produces is cleft related. Be alert to errors associated with the cleft or VPI, but do not let the cleft become such a “distraction” that you lose sight of the developmental aspects of the child's speech and language.
Expanding the Phonetic Inventory
Toddlers with severely limited vocabularies frequently demonstrate impaired phonological skills as well. When delays are evident across all areas of language, intervention typically focuses on the lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of language. It is assumed that as positive changes occur in these aspects of language, positive changes will follow in phonology. For many children with cleft palate, however, delays in phonological development far exceed delays in other areas. These delays result primarily from restricted consonant inventories that often make it difficult to identify intelligible words in the early lexicon. If careful analysis of spontaneous uerances suggests that the child's expressive vocabulary is developing appropriately, then a primary goal of intervention will be to expand the consonant inventory. It is likely
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that some nasals and glides will already be present in the inventory. Developmentally, the addition of early developing voiced stops (e.g., /b/ and /d/) would make sense. However, you should not feel constrained by developmental considerations when selecting consonants to target in therapy with these children. Some of these children find fricatives easier to produce than stops. Because the goal is to increase the variety of consonants that the child produces (so the child has more sounds to aach meaning to), you should feel free to focus initially on any consonants that are easy to elicit. Table 11-2 offers a summary of contexts that can be used to facilitate consonant production during the early stages of speech development. Activities that either a parent or a clinician can use to stimulate new consonants include the following:
• Model lip and tongue movements in a mirror while siing side by side with the child in front of a large mirror, and encourage imitation:
— Puff up your cheeks with air, and then tap the
cheek repeatedly to release air through lips in small bursts.
— Pucker or protrude your lips while producing /u/,
and then pat your mouth repeatedly to generate /w/.
• Model specific speech targets in CV syllables, as in “pa,” “da” to encourage imitative production. A good way to draw the child's visual aention to your mouth (in the mirror) is to bring a block or peg to the side of your mouth as you produce the target sound. The child's aempted response can then be rewarded or reinforced by puing the block in a bucket or the peg in a pegboard, which tells the child that he or she has succeeded in the task. This activity is illustrated in Video 11-2
. Note that the clinician is also training the
parent for home practice in this activity.
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• Use specific play activities to stimulate specific sounds:
— Blow bubbles and use “bilabial language” within
this task. For example, say “Bubbles. Blow bubbles.” (Clinician blows bubbles.) Again, “Bubbles, POP, POP.” (Clinician pops bubbles and encourages child to do same.) “More bubbles?? Blow bubbles!” (Repeat several times, gradually engaging the child in blowing as well as popping the bubbles.) If one parent is present, “Mommy (Papa) blow, Mommy (Papa) pop, Mommy (Papa) blow,” and so forth.
— Sing “lalala” to a simple song.
— Feed a baby doll, and say /mmmm/ each time a
bole or spoon is brought to her mouth.
— Say “shhhhhhhhhh” while making the gesture for
the “be quiet” sound.
— Play with toys and animal figures, and use specific
sounds to represent the sounds they make (e.g., say “ssssssss” each time the snake appears; say “rrrrrrrr” each time you move the car, “baaa” for the goat or lamb, “bzzzz” for bee). It is a good idea to collect toy animal figures in identical pairs (one for you, one for the child) to facilitate imitation and turn-taking games. Holding the animal to
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your mouth will direct the child's aention to the speech gestures as well as to the sounds.
TABLE 11-2
Contexts for Facilitating Consonant Production in Early Speech
GOAL ACTIVITY
To increase length and rhythm of productions
Use simple repetitive motor activities (e.g., bouncing on a large ball) while
modeling repetitive syllables in time with the child's movement (/ba ba ba/) To connect sounds with meaning
Use songs like “The Wheels on the Bus” that include verses with simple
sounds (e.g., “the wipers on the bus go whoosh, whoosh, whoosh,” “the
babies on the bus go wah, wah, wah”) To encourage expression of emotion with conventional vocalizations
Use games and routines to incorporate exclamations such as “yeah,”,
“wow,” “uh-oh,” “haha,” and “whee”
To facilitate consonants Use stressed syllables (baby to facilitate /b/) To facilitate velar consonants
Use words with velars at the end of syllables (talk to facilitate /k/) and
words with velars preceding back vowels (good to facilitate /ɡ/) To facilitate alveolar consonants
Use words with alveolars preceding a front vowel (tea to facilitate /t/)
To facilitate production of a consonant at a new place of articulation
Use a word that contains another consonant at the same place of
articulation (toss to facilitate /s/)
To facilitate first fricatives Use words with fricatives between vowels (taffy to facilitate /f/) To facilitate voicing distinctions
Use beginning contexts to facilitate production of voiced consonants (dough
to facilitate /d/) and ending contexts to facilitate production of voiceless
consonants (eat to facilitate /t/)
Adapted from Paul R, Norbury CF: Language disorders from infancy through adolescence (4th ed). St. Louis: Mosby, 2012; Bleile K, Miller S: Infants and toddlers. In Bernthal J (ed): Articulatory and phonological disorders in toddlers with medical needs. New York: Thieme, 1993, pp. 81-109; DeThorne LS, Johnson CJ,
Walder L, Mahurin-Smith J. When “Simon says” doesn't work: alternatives to imitation for facilitating early speech development. Am J Speech Lang Pathol 18:133-145, 2009.
Facilitating Early Words
If the toddler's consonant and syllable shape inventories appear significantly delayed and the early lexicon also appears restricted, you may want to begin expanding the child's vocabulary as well. Focused stimulation and enhanced milieu training are intervention strategies that are commonly used during the earliest stages of speech-language acquisition to facilitate vocabulary expansion and
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