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Prevalence of speech disorders among elementary school children In Al-Hilla city, Iraq, 2014 | ||
| IRAQI JOURNALOF COMMUNITY MEDICINE | ||
| Article 1, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 22-27 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hasan A Baie; Safaa H Alturaihi; Ali H Obeid | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: One of the neglected problems in Iraq is the speech disorder among children, which is not uncommon public health, lifelong problem that may affect their social, emotional well-being, cognition, and behavior and may be associated with lowered school performance. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of speech disorder (specifically speech sound disorders and stuttering) among a sample of first class elementary school children in Al-Hilla City,Iraq,2014, and to identify some of contributing factors of this disorder. Subjects and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study carried on first class pupils in a randomly selected sample from 16 elementary schools (8 male and 8 female schools, 50% of studied schools were from rural area). The study was conducted during the academic year 2013-2014.The number of male pupils was 532 while the number of female pupils was 529. The data were collected by using teacher reports, questionnaire, and simplified screening tests. Results: The overall prevalence of school children with speech sound disorders was 11.4%, while the prevalence of stuttering was1.2%. The prevalence of speech disorder was significantly higher among male children as compared to female, the male to female ratio was1.8:1. There was a significant relationship between the level of education of parents and speech disorder. There was a significant correlation between stuttering and school performances of students, stutterers were low school performers. Conclusion: Speech disorders are highly prevalent in first class primary schools in our community, compared to other developed countries | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Stuttering; speech disorders; Primary school children; Iraq; Hilla City | ||
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