Forrest Karen
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
Semin Speech Lang. 2002 Feb;23(1):15-26. doi: 10.1055/s-2002-23508.
The utility of oral-motor exercises in the remediation of children's speech acquisition delays continues to be a controversial issue. There are few empirical evaluations of the efficacy of these nonspeech activities in effecting speech changes, although much can be learned from investigations in related fields. The purpose of this article is to review the extant studies of the relation between oral-motor exercises and speech production in children as well as to examine the motor learning literature to gain a broader perspective on the issue. Results of this examination lead to questions about the procedures that are currently applied as well as to suggestions for future development of nonspeech activities in the treatment of children's phonological/articulatory disorders.
口腔运动练习在矫治儿童语言习得延迟方面的效用一直是个有争议的问题。尽管从相关领域的研究中能学到很多东西，但对于这些非言语活动在引发言语变化方面功效的实证评估却很少。本文的目的是回顾关于口腔运动练习与儿童言语产生之间关系的现有研究，并审视运动学习文献，以便从更广阔的视角看待这个问题。这项审视的结果引发了对当前应用程序的质疑，以及对未来非言语活动在治疗儿童语音/发音障碍方面发展的建议。
