Improvement of Articulation in a Mentally Retarded Child with Autistic Symptoms.

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  • CHIMOTO Keiko
    Speech Therapy Section, Department of Rehabilitation, Tsukuba Hospital
  • SATO Akiko
    Speech Therapy Section, Department of Rehabilitation, Tsukuba Hospital
  • KATO Masako
    Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine, Showa University
  • OKAZAKI Keiko
    Faculity of Foreign Studies, Sophia University

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  • 自閉症状を伴う知的障害児にみられた構音の改善
  • ジレイ ホウコク ジヘイショウジョウ オ トモナウ チテキ ショウガイジ ニ ミラレタ コウオン ノ カイゼン

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This study reports on improvement in articulation in a mentally retarded nine-year old boy with autistic symptoms. Initially, the boy would not initiate speech but would only parrot back what was said to him. Since the consonants he produced consisted mostly of glottal stop sounds, we adopted systematic articulation therapy. This resulted in an improvement in articulation and in the boy participating in simple, every day conversations. We speculate here that giving attention to cognitive factors may contribute to articulation improvement when giving articulation training to patients with autistic symptoms. This study also indicates that articulation therapy may result in the improvement of conversational ability.

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