Just double checked. It is not true to say there is no research in this area, but of course it is very limited. "Reading without Speech: A Study of Children with Cerebral Palsy" is a study of 10 children only from 1989. The abstract states that "Speech production ability was found to correlate significantly with sound blending skills". How you can have significance with a cohort of 10 I'm not sure.

A more recent study from 2007, "Foundations of phonological awareness in pre-school children with cerebral palsy: the impact of
intellectual disability" studied phonological awareness of 54 children with CP and 71 normally developing children. I've only scanned the article, but I think they've found that there is a relationship between speech abilities and rhyming.

So this comes back to my original point: is it possible that tongue tie could have such far reaching consequences?

Eithne Murray

             ***********************************************

Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html
To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]
Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask]
COMMANDS:
1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail
2. To start it again: set lactnet mail
3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome