Development of a screening tool to identify babies at risk of language delay in India: A preliminary study.
Early identification of language delay is important as it has a serious impact on a child's life in terms of educational, social, and emotional development. Among the early language screening tools, there are some parent-administered tools; however, they are not culturally appropriate or freely avai...
| Publicado en: | Language Acquisition Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 29 - 50 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan-Mar2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=160786011&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 160786011 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10489223 7MI jtl: Language Acquisition issn: 10489223 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan-Mar2023 vid: 30 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 160786011 10.1080/10489223.2022.2078212 ppf: 29 ppct: 21 formats: tig: atl: Development of a screening tool to identify babies at risk of language delay in India: A preliminary study. aug: au: Pathak, Siddhi Sovani-Kelkar, Pallavi affil: Shubhananda Clinic School of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), Pune, India su: Maharashtra (India) Infants Cities & towns Pragmatics Language delay Expressive language Language ability testing Computer adaptive testing sug: subj: Infants Cities & towns Pragmatics Maharashtra (India) Language delay Expressive language Language ability testing Computer adaptive testing ab: Early identification of language delay is important as it has a serious impact on a child's life in terms of educational, social, and emotional development. Among the early language screening tools, there are some parent-administered tools; however, they are not culturally appropriate or freely available. This article documents the development and preliminary validation of a quick and easy-to-administer language screening tool for babies from 6 to 18 months of age. Parents of 100 babies ranging in age from 6 to 21 months were included in the study. The babies were classified into five screening levels according to their age. The items of a Screening Test of Early Language Development-Test version (STELD-T) were created and validated through expert opinion. The STELD-T was administered along with the Receptive Expressive Emergent Language Scale (REELS). Internal consistency using the Kuder-Richardson Formula-20 ranged from 0.457 to 0.853 across the five levels, acceptable owing to short tool length and item heterogeneity. Kappa coefficients indicated 0.459 to 0.875 agreement between the STELD-T and the REELS indicated satisfactory criterion validity. After calculating the percentage of babies with a "refer" result as well as Kappa statistics with three different pass-refer criteria, a pass-refer criterion of 75% seemed to be appropriate for screening. The STELD seems to be a reliable and valid tool to screen language development in babies from 6 months to 18 months of age in urban areas of Maharashtra. Items representing a range of language skills including pragmatics make it a unique tool. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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