ArticleJournal of communication disorders
Psychosocial co-morbidities in adolescents and adults with histories of communication disorders.
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- Caregiver beliefs and practices about communication disorders in early childhood development centres from Durban: A qualitative study.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties associated with persistent speech disorder in children: A prospective population study.JCPP advances · 2023Article
- Psychosocial Considerations for the Child with Rare Disease: A Review with Recommendations and Calls to Action.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Preschool blood lead levels, language competency, and substance use in adolescence.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Psychosocial Comorbidities in Adolescents With Histories of Childhood Apraxia of Speech.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2021Article
- Feature-driven classification reveals potential comorbid subtypes within childhood apraxia of speech.BMC pediatrics · 2020Article
- Differential Long-Term Outcomes for Individuals With Histories of Preschool Speech Sound Disorders.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2019Article
- Quantifying phonological knowledge in children with phonological disorder.Clinical linguistics & phonetics · 2019Article
- Theory of Mind Deficits and Social Emotional Functioning in Preschoolers with Specific Language Impairment.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
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backgroundFew studies have considered the long-term psychosocial outcomes of individuals with histories of early childhood speech sound disorders (SSD). Research on long-term psychosocial outcomes of individuals with language impairment (LI) have frequently failed to consider the effects of co-morbid SSD. The purpose of this study was to compare individuals with histories of SSD-only versus SSD with LI on these outcomes and to examine the contributions of other comorbid conditions including reading disorders (RD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
methodsParticipants were adolescents aged 11-17 years (N=129) and young adults aged 18-33 years (N=98). Probands with SSD were originally recruited between 4 and 6 years of age and classified into SSD-only and SSD+LI groups. Siblings of these children were also assessed at this time and those without SSD or LI were followed as controls. Outcome measures at adolescence and adulthood included ratings of hyperactivity, inattention, anxiety, and depression, as well as internalizing, externalizing, social, and thought problems. Adult outcomes also included educational and employment status and quality of life ratings. Regression modeling was performed to examine the association of SSD, LI, RD, and ADHD with psychosocial outcomes using Generalized Estimating Equations.
resultsIn the adolescent group, LI was associated with poorer ratings of psychosocial problems on all scales except depression. Histories of SSD-only, RD and ADHD did not independently predict any of the adolescent psychosocial measures. In contrast, LI in the adult sample was not significantly associated with any of the behavior ratings, though RD was related to higher ratings of hyperactivity and inattention and with higher parent ratings of internalizing and externalizing symptoms and thought problems. SSD did not predict any of the adult measures once other comorbid conditions were taken into account.
conclusionsPoor adolescent psychosocial outcomes for individuals with early childhood SSD were primarily related to comorbid LI and not to SSD per se. At adulthood, comorbid RD and ADHD may influence outcomes more significantly than LI.
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