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ArticleAmerican journal of speech-language pathology2024

Speech-Language Outcomes in the COVID-19 Milieu for Multilingual Jamaican Preschoolers and Considerations for Telepractice Assessments.

Leslie E Kokotek, Karla N Washington, Barbara Jane Cunningham, Shauna P Acquavita

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Article in American journal of speech-language pathology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Leslie E KokotekDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, OH.ORCID 0000-0002-7889-3342
Karla N WashingtonDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, OH.ORCID 0000-0001-8261-6092
Barbara Jane CunninghamSchool of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2032-4999
Shauna P AcquavitaSchool of Social Work, University of Cincinnati, OH.ORCID 0000-0001-6353-5174

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Characterizing Bilingual Speech Sound Production in Jamaican Creole and English-Speaking PreschoolersR21DC018170 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO · PI WASHINGTON, KARLA N · 2019 to 2020
$479k
NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC018170
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purposeThe purpose of this study was to characterize the communicative participation and functional speech intelligibility (i.e., how children use communication and how well they are understood across everyday life) of typically developing (TD) bilingual Jamaican preschoolers and those with functionally defined speech sound disorders (fSSDs) in the COVID-19 milieu. Findings were also compared to an existing corpus of baseline data to document and explore differences in children's speech-language outcomes secondary to pandemic-related social restrictions.

methodThirty bilingual Jamaican preschoolers, 21 TD and nine with fSSDs, were assessed during the pandemic via telepractice. Association and univariate mean testing were completed to characterize children's communicative participation and functional speech intelligibility. Data were then compared to an existing corpus of baseline data (collected in person between 2013 and 2019), which included direct child assessment and parent reports and consisted of TD (

resultsMeasures of communicative participation remained stable in the context of the COVID-19 milieu for children in the TD and fSSD groups, but functional speech intelligibility outcomes for children with fSSDs deviated between in-person findings collected from children pre-pandemic. Between-groups differences were also found on measures of speech production accuracy but were no longer significant when considering telepractice as a covariate.

conclusionsFindings from this investigation serve to characterize the communicative participation and functional speech intelligibility of TD bilingual Jamaican preschoolers and those with fSSDs in the COVID-19 milieu. By extension, the results comparing data from preschoolers collected during the pandemic to an existing corpus of baseline data from a different group of preschoolers provide critical insights about multilingual children's speech-language outcomes in the context of acutely changing environmental circumstances. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.25461505.

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COVID-19MultilingualismSpeech IntelligibilityChild LanguageChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansJamaicaMaleSARS-CoV-2Speech Sound Disorder

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PMCPMC11253648

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