scholarly journals Risk Factors of Delayed Language Development among Preschool Children Attending Assiut University Hospitals

2018 ◽  
Vol 86 (9) ◽  
pp. 2279-2285
Author(s):  
HALA H. ABOUFADDAN, M.D.; SABRA M. AHMED, M.D.
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Language Development ◽  
University Hospitals ◽  
Delayed Language Development

Efficacy of Expansions and Cloze Procedures in the Development of Interpretations by Preschool Children Exhibiting Delayed Language Development

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica L. Bradshaw ◽  
Paul R. Hoffman ◽  
Janet A. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Storybook Reading ◽  
Discourse Context ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Delayed Language Development

Recent intervention studies have demonstrated that adult-provided expansions of child utterances during storybook reading can result in preschool children’s development of two-word utterances that describe characters and their actions as well as grammatical morphemes that are targeted for development via expansions. The present study used an alternating-treatments experimental design to compare the effects of two styles of storybook reading on the production of interpretations by two preschool children experiencing delayed language development. One reading style used a combination of expansions and cloze procedures; the other provided questions followed by modeling of appropriate answers. The children produced more answers to questions regarding the storybook, more interpretations, and syntactically more complex utterances in the condition using expansions and cloze procedures. Results are discussed with respect to the use of these techniques in naturalistic intervention and the relationship between their use and the discourse context of the intervention sessions.

Predicting Poor-Communication Status in Preschool Children Using Risk Factors Present at Birth

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1096-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Bruce Tomblin ◽  
James C. Hardy ◽  
Herman A. Hein
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Communication Disorder ◽  
Communication Development ◽  
Language Status

The speech and language status of 662 children between the ages of 30 months and 5 years was determined through the use of parent report information. Twelve of these children were reported by their parents to have been diagnosed as having a speech-language disorder, and 50 of these children were found to be at or below the 10th percentile in language development for children of their age. Information about family background and birth history obtained when these children were born was evaluated with respect to its power to predict speech-language status in these preschool children. A set of risk criteria was found to accurately predict 55% of those children with poor communication skills and 76% of those with normal communication development. This prediction was improved by the addition of data about the child’s birth order. These results suggest that programs of preschool identification should consider the inclusion of a registry of children who are at risk for a communication disorder.

The Preschool Stuttering Screen for Health Care Professionals

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Joseph Donaher ◽  
Christina Deery ◽  
Sarah Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Developmental Profile

Healthcare professionals require a thorough understanding of stuttering since they frequently play an important role in the identification and differential diagnosis of stuttering for preschool children. This paper introduces The Preschool Stuttering Screen for Healthcare Professionals (PSSHP) which highlights risk factors identified in the literature as being associated with persistent stuttering. By integrating the results of the checklist with a child’s developmental profile, healthcare professionals can make better-informed, evidence-based decisions for their patients.

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