AU - Safarpour, Leila AU - Jalilevand, Nahid AU - Ghorbani, Ali AU - Rasouli, Mahboobeh AU - Bayazian, Gholamreza TI - Language Sample Analysis in Children With Cleft Lip and Palate PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - Iranian-Rehabilitation-Journal JN - Iranian-Rehabilitation-Journal VO - 19 VI - 1 IP - 1 4099 - http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-1132-en.html 4100 - http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-1132-en.pdf SO - Iranian-Rehabilitation-Journal 1 ABĀ  - Objectives: Cleft Palate (CP) with or without Cleft Lip (CL/P) are the most common craniofacial birth defects. Cleft Lip and Palate (CLP) can affect children’s communication skills. The present study aimed to evaluate language production skills concerning morphology and syntax (morphosyntactic) in children with CLP. Methods: In the current cross-sectional study, 58 Persian-speaking children (28 children with CLP & 30 children without craniofacial anomalies=non-clefts) participated. Gathering the language samples of the children was conducted using the picture description method. The 50 consecutive intelligible utterances of children were analyzed by the Persian Developmental Sentence Scoring (PDSS), as a clinical morphosyntactic measurement tool. Results: The PDSS total scores of children with CLP were lower than those of the non-clefts children. A significant difference was found between the studied children with CLP and children without craniofacial anomalies in the mean value of PDSS total scores (P=0.0001). Discussion: Children with CLP demonstrate a poor ability for using morphosyntactic elements. Therefore, it should be considered how children with CLP use the grammatical components. CP - IRAN IN - Department of Speech and Language Pathology LG - eng PB - Iranian-Rehabilitation-Journal PG - 23 PT - Brief Report YR - 2021