Speech Defects in Children Aged 7 Years: A National Study

A series of screening procedures applied on a national scale by doctors, teachers, and health visitors showed that between 10% and 13% of British 7-year-old children born in one week in 1958 were reported as having an appreciable degree of speech impairment. Between 1% and 2% had a marked speech def...

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Published in:BMJ 1973-02, Vol.1 (5848), p.253-257
Main Authors: Butler, Neville R., Peckham, Catherine, Sheridan, Mary
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birth Order
Child
Child development
Child health services
Children
Disabilities
Educational Status
Female
Hearing
Humans
Male
Papers and Originals
Pregnancy
Preschool children
Reading
Sex Factors
Social Adjustment
Social Class
Social classes
Socioeconomic Factors
Speech defects
Speech Disorders - epidemiology
Speech Therapy
Stuttering
United Kingdom
Vision Disorders - complications
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Summary:A series of screening procedures applied on a national scale by doctors, teachers, and health visitors showed that between 10% and 13% of British 7-year-old children born in one week in 1958 were reported as having an appreciable degree of speech impairment. Between 1% and 2% had a marked speech defect though hearing normally. This latter group of speech-defective children were more often male and of poor family background, and more were born towards the end of a long family. They were often at a disadvantage educationally and had more clumsiness and defects of vision and visuomotor co-ordination than the rest of the sample. The methods used for screening provided a reliable guide in the selection of children who require further investigation.
ISSN:0007-1447
0959-8138
1468-5833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.1.5848.253