Assessment of Speech and Language Development in the Young Child

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-354
Author(s):  
Martin Bax ◽  
Hilary Hart ◽  
Sue Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Young Child ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Clinical Method ◽  
Speech Therapist ◽  
Speech And Language Development ◽  
Normal Speech

A clinical method of assessing speech and language development in preschool children is described. Sixty-two 3-year-old children were assessed by a pediatrician, a speech therapist, and a psychologist. In 55 children there was agreement between all three examiners. Three children with articulation problems were rated as having normal comprehensive and expressive language by the psychologist. Three children were rated as having normal speech and language development by the pediatrician and speech therapist but delayed by the psychologist; all three had behavior problems. One further child rated as having a speech and language problem by the pediatrician was rated as normal by the speech therapist and psychologist. It is concluded that pediatricians can make reliable assessments of speech and language development.

Speech and Language Development in 41 Children with Sex Chromosome Anomalies

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-267
Author(s):  
Bruce Bender ◽  
Elizabeth Fry ◽  
Bruce Pennington ◽  
Mary Puck ◽  
James Salbenblatt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Sex Chromosome ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Receptive Language ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Chromosome Anomalies ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Speech And Language Development ◽  
Production Problems

Forty-one children with sex chromosome anomalies identified from the chromosome screening of a newborn population were blindly evaluated by a speech-language pathologist, along with a control group of 31 siblings. 47,XXX girls and 47,XXY boys were found to have increased problems in auditory perception, receptive language, and expressive language; the problems of the 47,XXY boys were less severe than those of the 47,XXX group, and reflected specific deficits in their ability to process linguistic information rather than a deficit in comprehension. An increased occurrence of speech production problems among the 45,X girls was associated with the presence of oral/structural malformations that often had no measurable effect on their production of speech sounds. Although the 45,X girls and 47,XYY boys had no significant increase of problems in auditory reception, receptive language, and expressive language, the trend of the data suggested more difficulty than in the control groups. The mosaic children were not different from the control subjects. Some children in all groups were found to have normal speech and language development.

A Parental Survey of Speech, Language, and Physical Development of Infants and Toddlers with Sickle Cell Disease

1997 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 1105-1106
Author(s):  
Betholyn Gentry ◽  
Lynn Hall ◽  
Jess Dancer
Keyword(s):  
Sickle Cell Disease ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Sickle Cell ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
Infants And Toddlers ◽  
Cell Disease ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Physical Size ◽  
Speech And Language Development ◽  
Normal Speech

16 parents of infants and toddlers (9 girls, 7 boys) with sickle cell disease reported normal speech and language development in their children but perceived slow physical development. Such perceptions may be related to the smaller physical size of children with this disease.

scholarly journals Awareness of typical speech-language development among parents of children with hearing impairment

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 1136
Author(s):  
Pooja Pallavi ◽  
Aarti P. Waknis
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Hearing Devices ◽  
Parental Counseling ◽  
Speech And Language Development ◽  
Normal Speech ◽  
Group 1

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Parents of children with hearing impairment who are aware of normal speech-language development play an effective and active role in the early detection, diagnosis, and habilitation of these children. Hence this study was aimed to explore the level of awareness about normal speech and language milestones in parents of children with hearing impairment.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> Questionnaire assessing the parents’ awareness of speech-language development in children from birth to 3 years was administered on 80 parents of children (birth to 5 years) with hearing impairment. These included 40 parents of children recently diagnosed with hearing impairment (group 1 HI-R) and 40 parents of children with hearing impairment who were fitted with appropriate hearing devices and enrolled in a speech and language habilitation program (group II HI-T).  </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> Results indicated that the level of awareness was moderate for both the groups for semantic and morphosyntax domains as well as total scores, but was low to moderate for the pragmatic domain. There was no statistically significant difference in the level of awareness between the two groups.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Moderate awareness levels indicates that parents of children with hearing impairment need to be made aware about the normal speech and language development so that it can guide them in the habilitation process. This information although important does not appear to have been provided to the parents of children already undergoing habilitation. Thus, there is need of including this as a goal in parental counseling.</p>

Normal Speech and Language Development: An Overview

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
James Coplan
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Human Infants ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Speech And Language Development ◽  
Normal Speech

Normal Speech and Language Development Language consists of any symbol system for the storage and exchange of information. It commonly is described in terms of auditory expressive and receptive ability (speech and listening comprehension, respectively). However, language also is conveyed visually. Normal infants attend to gestures and initiate various gestures to make their needs known; visual language development in deaf infants exposed to a formal sign system, such as American Sign Language (ASL), parallels the stages of oral language development in hearing infants;1 and reading and writing are obvious manifestations of visual language in older children and adults. Precursors to auditory and visual language are readily observable from earliest infancy. Because these precursors lack symbolic value, they are termed prelinguistic. AUDITORY EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE Human infants produce a uniform sequence of prelinguistic utterances, regardless of the language spoken by their adult caretakers. The earliest of these utterances is cooing, which consists of musical, open vowel sounds. Cooing should be well established within the first 4 to 6 weeks of life. This is followed in the first few months of life by bilabial sounds: blowing bubbles or the "raspberry." By 5 months, laughing and a variety of monosyllables appear, such as "ba" or "ga." Between 6 and 8 months, infants produce polysyllabic babbling, which consists of the same syllable repeated over and over: "lalalalala," "mamamamama," "dadadadada," and so forth.

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