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- Title
Utility of a Language Screening Measure for Predicting Risk for Language Impairment in Bilinguals.
- Authors
Lugo-Neris, Mirza J.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Gillam, Ronald B.
- Abstract
Purpose: This study evaluated the accuracy of an experimental version of the Bilingual English Spanish Oral Screener (BESOS; Peña, Bedore, Iglesias, Gutiérrez-Clellen, & Goldstein, 2008) for predicting the long-term risk for language impairment (LI) for a matched group of preschool-aged Spanish-English bilingual children with and without LI. Method: A total of 1,029 Spanish-English bilingual children completed the BESOS before entering kindergarten. A subset of 167 participants completed a follow-up language evaluation in 1st grade. Twenty-one of these children were identified as having LI and were matched to a group of 21 typically developing peers from the larger sample. A series of discriminant analyses were used to determine the combination of scores on the BESOS that most accurately predicted 2 years later which children presented with and without LI. Results: The linear combination of the semantics and morphosyntax scores in the best language resulted in predictive sensitivity of 95.2% and predictive specificity of 71.4%, with an overall accuracy of 81 % for predicting risk for LI. Conclusion: A bilingual language screener administered before kindergarten can be useful for predicting risk for LI in bilingual children in 1st grade.
- Subjects
TEXAS; UTAH; LANGUAGE disorders; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; LONGITUDINAL method; MEDICAL screening; MULTILINGUALISM; RESEARCH funding; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 3, p426
- ISSN
1058-0360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2015_AJSLP-14-0061