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Prolonged thumb sucking in infants may lead to speech impediments
October 21, 2009Using a pacifier for too long may be detrimental to your child's speech. Research published in the open access journal BMC Pediatrics suggests that the use of bottles, pacifiers and other sucking behaviors apart from breast-feeding may increase the risk of subsequent speech disorders in young children.
A research team from the A research team from the Corporacion de Rehabilitacion Club De Leones Cruz del Sur and the University of Washington Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program, led by Clarita Barbosa, evaluated the associations between sucking behaviors and speech disorders in 128 three- to five- year old preschoolers from Patagonia, Chile. The team combined parents' reports of infant feeding and sucking behaviors with evaluations of their child's speech. They found that delaying bottle use until the child was at least 9 months old reduced the risk of later developing speech disorders while children who sucked their fingers, or used a pacifier for more than 3 years were three times more likely to develop speech impediments.
"These results suggest extended use of sucking outside of breast-feeding may have detrimental effects on speech development in young children", according to Barbosa. This finding is particularly relevant, as use of bottles and pacifiers has increased dramatically over the last few decades. However, Barbosa is careful to note, "Although results of this study provide further evidence for the benefits of longer duration of breast feeding of infants, they should be interpreted with caution as these data are observational."
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Infant sucking habits may affect how baby talks
Pacifier, baby bottle or finger sucking may hamper a child's speech development if the habit goes on too long.
Researchers studying how singing bats communicate
Bats are the most vocal mammals other than humans, and understanding how they communicate during their nocturnal outings could lead to better treatments for human speech disorders, say researchers at Texas A&M University.
Bird Song Study Gives Clues to Human Stuttering
Researchers at the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) in Houston and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City used functional MRI to determine that songbirds have a pronounced right-brain response to the sound of songs, establishing a foundational study for future research on songbird models of speech disorders such as stuttering.
PATIENT DATABASE SYSTEM WILL HELP STUDENTS ACQUIRE CLINICAL SKILLS
Due for launch in the autumn of 1999, PATSy has been developed by Dr Carmel Lum of Queen Margaret's department of Speech and Language and Dr Richard Cox of the University of Edinburgh's Division of Informatics. The interactive, multimedia system allows students to study medical case histories and become familiar with various speech disorders before meeting clients when on clinical placements. It is recognised that at present, each student acquires knowledge and experience of various speech disorders according to the specific clients seen whilst on placement. PATSy will overcome this limitation by providing a much broader range of cases for study. Using the Internet, students are able to view
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