Table 4.
Demographic characteristics of children with speech motor impairment in the three dysarthria (DYS) clusters.
| Child characteristic | Cluster |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borderline (n = 3) | DYS1 (n = 6) | DYS2 (n = 9) | ||
| Sex (n) | M | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| F | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| TACL SS | M (SD) | 90 (22) | 95 (8) | 92 (22) |
| GMFCS (n) | I | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| II | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| III | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| IV | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| V | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Anatomic involvement (n) | Left hemiplegia | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Right hemiplegia | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Diplegia | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Quadriplegia | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| Unknown | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Overall intelligibility | M (SD) | 81.2 (8.3) | 57 (11.4) | 43.1 (13.6) |
Note. For the borderline cluster, only the three children from the group with speech motor impairment in this cluster are described. M = male; F = female; GMFCS = Gross Motor Function Classification System; TACL SS = Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language–Fourth Edition standard score.