Language Development Survey Provides a Useful Screening Tool for Language Delay in Preterm Infants

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 638-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roschanak Mossabeb ◽  
Kelly C. Wade ◽  
Kathryn Finnegan ◽  
Emidio Sivieri ◽  
Soraya Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Preterm Infants ◽  
Screening Tool ◽  
Language Delay

The Language Development Survey

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Rescorla
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Screening Tool ◽  
False Negative ◽  
Language Delay ◽  
Expressive Vocabulary ◽  
Prevalence Data ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Preschool Language ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Vocabulary Score

This paper reports data from four studies using the Language Development Survey (LDS), a vocabulary checklist designed for use as a screening tool for the identification of language delay in 2-year-old children. A survey completed by the parent in about 10 min, the LDS displayed excellent reliability as assessed by Cronbach's alpha and test-retest techniques. Total vocabulary score as reported on the LDS was highly correlated with performance on Bayley, Reynell, and Preschool Language Scale expressive vocabulary items. The LDS was found to have excellent sensitivity and specificity for the identification of language delay, with a criterion of fewer than 50 words or no word combinations at 2 years yielding very low false positive and false negative rates. Data from three of these studies demonstrate the utility of the LDS as a screening tool for children attending public and private pediatric practices. Prevalence data using the LDS are reported comparing three different severity cutoffs for more than 500 children in seven survey samples.

Concurrent Validity of the Language Development Survey: Associations With the MacArthur—Bates Communicative Development Inventories

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Rescorla ◽  
Nan Bernstein Ratner ◽  
Peter Jusczyk ◽  
Anne Marie Jusczyk
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Screening Tool ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Language Delay ◽  
Semantic Categories ◽  
Rank Ordering ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Vocabulary Score

This study examined the concurrent validity of the Language Development Survey (LDS), a 310-word parent report screening tool for language delay in toddlers, by testing its associations with the MacArthur—Bates Communicative Development Inventories: Words and Sentences (CDI:WS), a 680-word parent report instrument. Participants were 239 toddlers 23–25 months of age. The correlation between total vocabulary score on the 2 instruments was .95, and correlations across comparable semantic categories ranged from .84 to .94. The correlation between the LDS and the CDI:WS for mean length of phrases calculated on 3 examples of the child’s longest and best phrases was .90. Both instruments demonstrated that parents reported higher vocabulary and mean phrase length scores for girls. The study indicates that information obtained from the LDS about rank ordering of toddlers in terms of their reported vocabulary and mean length of phrases is equivalent to that obtained from the longer CDI:WS.

scholarly journals Validation of language evaluation scale Trivandrum in children aged 3 -6 years attending well baby clinic in a tertiary care hospital

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Avinash Singraiah ◽  
Pavan Hegde ◽  
Hazel D. Mendonsa
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Screening Tool ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Language Delay ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Speech Delay ◽  
Baby Clinic ◽  
Simple Screening

Background: Delay in language development is often an early and most sensitive indicator of intellectual disability. Language delay should be detected in early stages for early intervention, so our study is to validate a simple screening tool to assess language and speech delay in a tertiary care setting. Present study was conducted to validate LEST to use in pediatric clinics to identify delay in language development among children of 3-6years, and to compare LEST and extended receptive expressive emergent scale (Extended REELS).Methods: This was a cross sectional descriptive study done in children aged 3-6 years attending well baby clinic at a tertiary care hospital. Total sample size was 100. After the written informed consent, LEST was applied to all children initially and then extended REELS was administered in the department of speech and hearing.Results: The prevalence of language and speech delay in the present study was 16%. When one item delay was taken as ‘LEST delay’ (test positive), the sensitivity and specificity of LEST was found to be 25% and 80% respectively with a negative predictive value of 85% and Likelihood ratio (LR - negative) of 0.9. When two item delay was taken as ‘LEST delay, sensitivity and specificity, was found to be 44% and 99% respectively with a negative predictive value of 91% and LR (negative) of 0.5.Conclusions: The 16% prevalence of language delay in the children indicates the need for an early identification and for it a simple screening tool like LEST is a must during the routine evaluation of young children in pediatric clinics. 

scholarly journals The effect of age at time of cochlear implantation on the pragmatic development of the prelingual hearing impaired children

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Sameeh Khodeir ◽  
Dina Fouad El Sayed Moussa ◽  
Rasha Mohammed Shoeib
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Cochlear Implantation ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Language Delay ◽  
Pragmatic Language ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Pragmatic Development ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Abstract Background Pragmatics is the social use of language that draws on understanding human interactions in specific contexts and requires engagement with a communicative partner or partners. The hearing-impaired children are known to have a pragmatic language delay as hearing impairment deprived of exposure to natural communication interactions, in addition to the language delay they have. Since the age of implantation has emerged as an important predictor of language, hearing, and speech in children who use cochlear implants (CI), question aroused about the benefits of early cochlear implantation on pragmatic language development in those children. Thus, this study aims to compare the pragmatic language development of the prelingual hearing impaired children who cochlear implanted before the age of 3 years and those who cochlear implanted after the age of 3 years. Results The two study groups showed no significant differences regard their scores in the Egyptian Arabic Pragmatic Language Test (EAPLT). The two studied groups had pragmatic language scores below their 5th percentile. Among the studied groups, the scores of the EAPLT were positively correlated to the age of the children, the children’s language abilities, and the duration of the received language rehabilitation, with no significant correlation to the age of implantation. Conclusions The age of implantation has no impact on pragmatic language development in children with CI. The prelingual children with CI are susceptible to delays in the pragmatic language development that is primarily related to the age of those children and their language abilities, besides their experience in social interactions. These results should be considered in their rehabilitative plan and advocate the importance of early incorporation of pragmatic behaviors into their intervention programs.

Accuracy of the Core Language Score of the CELF P2UK in Identifying Language Delay in Children from a Disadvantaged Community in Ireland

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Jennifer Keogh ◽  
Fiona Gibbon ◽  
Cara Teahan
Keyword(s):  
Screening Tool ◽  
Standard Test ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Language Delay ◽  
Disadvantaged Community ◽  
The Core ◽  
Normal Language ◽  
Core Language ◽  
Low Sensitivity ◽  
Language Screening

Objective: To determine if the Core Language Screen, a widely-used language screening tool, accurately identifies language delay in children from a disadvantaged community. Method: Participants were 234 children with mean age 4;07 years attending primary and preschools in a city area designated as disadvantaged in the south of Ireland. Participants were assessed on the CLS (screen) and full CELF-P2UK (gold standard) test. Sensitivity and specificity levels of the CLS were calculated. Main results: In total, 73 (31%) children had language delay on the CELF P2UK but of this group 34 (47%) passed the CLS screen. This gives the CLS a low sensitivity level of 0.53. In contrast, only one child with normal language failed the screen. This gives the CLS an excellent specificity level of 0.99. The results revealed an unusual profile of weaker receptive compared to expressive skills in all children, although it was particularly evident in those with language delay. Conclusion: The CLS failed to identify almost half the group with delays and therefore is not an accurate language screening tool for clinical or research purposes. Further research is needed to investigate not only the poor identification accuracy of the CLS but also the children’s unusual profile of weaker receptive and stronger expressive language skills.

RESTRAINT AND SPEECH

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-122
Author(s):  
Maarten S. Sibinga ◽  
C. Jack Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Language Delay ◽  
Behavioral Difficulties ◽  
Sensorimotor Function ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Expressive Speech ◽  
Speech Articulation ◽  
History Of

The incidence of delay in language development and difficulties in speech articulation was determined in 71 children selected because of a history of prior physical immobilization. Ten children were referred for psychological evaluation after contact with a speech department, 44 presented with a variety of learning and behavioral difficulties, and 17 children were known through social contacts. Nine children were clearly brain damaged while 13 showed questionable evidence of brain damage. Language delay and speech articulation problems occurred in at least 55% of the children in the various groups. Young age (4.7 months) at the time of the initial restraint experience, but not the duration of the initial restraint experience, was positively related to the presence of language delay and articulation problems. Interference with sensorimotor function not directly involved in receptive or expressive speech functions might well he implicated in language and speech disturbances.

scholarly journals Italian adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Chiara Levorato ◽  
Maja Roch
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Language Delay ◽  
School Age ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Narrative Competence ◽  
Italian Version ◽  
Italian Context

This paper presents the Italian version of the Multilingual Assessment tool for Narratives (MAIN), describes how it was developed and reports on some recent uses of MAIN within the Italian context. The Italian MAIN has been used in different research projects and for clinical purposes; results have been presented at conferences and in peer reviewed papers. The results indicate that MAIN is an appropriate assessment tool for evaluating children’s narrative competence, in production and comprehension from preschool age (5 years) to school age (8 years) in typical language development, bilingual development and language delay/disorders.

Prenatal exposure to acetaminophen and children's language development at 30 months

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 98-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.-G. Bornehag ◽  
A. Reichenberg ◽  
M. Unenge Hallerback ◽  
S. Wikstrom ◽  
H.M. Koch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Language Delay ◽  
Urinary Concentration ◽  
Main Study ◽  
Confounding By Indication ◽  
Parental Questionnaire ◽  
Child Asthma ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Asthma And Allergy

AbstractObjective:To examine prenatal APAP exposure in relation to language development in offspring at 30 months of age.Method:A population-based pregnancy cohort study including 754 women who enrolled in the Swedish Environmental Longitudinal, Mother and child, Asthma and allergy (SELMA) study in pregnancy week 8–13. Two exposure measures were used: (1) maternally reported number of APAP tablets taken between conception and enrollment; (2) APAP urinary concentration at enrollment. Language development at 30 months was assessed by nurse's evaluation and parental questionnaire, including the number of words the child used (<25, 25–50 and >50). Main study outcome; parental report of use of fewer than 50 words, termed language delay (LD).Results:59.2% of women enrolled in weeks 8–13 reported taking APAP between conception and enrollment. APAP was measurable in all urine samples and urinary APAP was correlated with the number of APAP taken during pregnancy (P<0.01). Language delay was more prevalent in boys (12.6%) than girls (4.1%) (8.5% in total). Both the number of APAP tablets and urinary APAP concentration were associated with greater LD in girls but not in boys. The adjusted odds ratio (OR) for LD among girls whose mothers reported >6vs.0 APAP tablets was 5.92 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.10–31.94). The OR for LD in girls whose mothers’ urinary APAP was in the highest compared to the lowest quartile was 10.34 (95% CI 1.37–77.86). While it cannot be ruled out, our available data do not support confounding by indication.Conclusions:Given the prevalence of prenatal APAP use and the importance of language development, these findings, if replicated, would suggest that pregnant women should limit their use of this analgesic during pregnancy.

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