Speech Outcomes in Cleft children from Non-English Speaking homes.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Are children with a history of Cleft Palate and/or Lip from a non-English language speaking homes more susceptible to atypical speech sound errors at 3 and 5 years old?
IRAS ID
265862
Contact name
Sophie Bourne
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Sheffield
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 2 months, 19 days
Research summary
In primary schools, the number of children believed to be exposed to a language other than English is 21.2% (Department for Education 2018). A proportion of these children will also be born with Cleft Palate and/or Lip (CP +/- L) and make use of NHS cleft services. Research suggests that in typically developing bilingual children there may be different rates of speech sound, or phonological development compared to monolingual children, potentially with more advanced speech sound development with bilingual groups (Goldstein and Bunta 2011). Currently there is no data for clinical speech outcomes for children born with CP+/-L, comparing children exposed to English at home, as opposed to those exposed to non-English languages.
The data collected from the proposed research will be used to address the following research questions:
1. To compare the speech performance and phonetic abilities of children aged 3 years, born with CP+/-L who are exposed to English only at home, versus those who are exposed to additional languages.
2. To compare the speech performance and phonetic abilities of children aged 5 years, born with CP+/-L who are exposed to English only at home, versus those who are exposed to additional languages.
3. To compare the audit data in part 2 against national standards reported by Britton et al (2014) “By 5-5;11 years over 50% of children with CP+/- L will have speech within the normal range”.
4. Are children with a history of CP+/-L from a non-English language speaking homes more susceptible to atypical speech sound errors at 3 and 5 years old?REC name
North West - Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/NW/0513
Date of REC Opinion
27 Sep 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion