How Do Families of Children with Down Syndrome Perceive Speech Intelligibility in Turkey?

Table 6

Percentages of parents on questions of consonant and vowel production.

	Always	Frequently	Sometimes	Never
(26) My child has difficulty saying some consonant sounds	22.3%	23.2%	29.5%	25.1%
(27) My child has difficulty saying some vowel sounds	17.2%	16.6%	35.4%	30.7%
(28) My child often reverses sounds in words (e.g., aminal for animal)	20.4%	27.3%	40.1%	12.2%
(31) My child leaves out sounds in words	32.6%	26.6%	33.9%	6.9%
(32) My child leaves out syllables in words	31.7%	21.6%	34.2%	12.5%
(17) My child uses a few sounds but does not make many different sounds	24.5%	20.1%	37%	18.5%