Nancy A. Raitano|Bruce F. Pennington|Rachel A. Tunick|Richard Boada|Lawrence D. Shriberg
Pre?literacy skills of subgroups of children with speech sound disorders
University of Denver|University of Denver|University of Denver|University of Denver|University of Wisconsin System
existing literature conflicting findings literacy outcome children speech sound disorders ssd may due heterogeneity within ssd previous studies documented two important dimensions heterogeneity presence comorbid language impairment li persistence ssd factors examined separatelythe current study used 2 x 2 manova design followup mancovas examine comorbid language impairment li persistence ssd relate preliteracy skills sample 5 6yearold children ssdsignificant main effects persistent ssd li obtained factor associated worse performance preliteracy tasks particularly assessing phonological awareness even nonverbal iq covaried addition even ssd children normalized speech without li found deficits phonological awareness tasks relative control participantsthese results suggest history ssd comorbid li strong correlates preliteracy deficits