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- Title
Concise tool based on language milestones identifies children with specific language impairment at 24-45 months of age.
- Authors
Diepeveen, F. Babette; Dommelen, Paula; Oudesluys‐Murphy, Anne Marie; Verkerk, Paul H.; van Dommelen, Paula; Oudesluys-Murphy, Anne Marie
- Abstract
<bold>Aim: </bold>This study aimed to develop a concise tool with acceptable predictive properties to identify young children with specific language impairment (SLI).<bold>Methods: </bold>In this nested case-control study children with SLI attending two special needs schools for severe speech and language difficulties in the Netherlands were matched by date of birth and sex with control children attending mainstream education. This study analysed the predictive validity for having SLI at a mean age of eight years and three months (range 4-11 years) using combinations of six language milestones that were registered at 24, 36 and 45 months and retrieved from the children's healthcare files in 2012.<bold>Results: </bold>We included 253 pairs of children with and without SLI. During a single visit, combinations of two milestones at one age achieved a specificity of at least 97% and sensitivities ranged from 32% to 64%. However, the concise tool, which combined five milestones at three different ages - 24, 36 and 45 months - had a specificity of 96% (95% confidence interval 94-99%) and a sensitivity of 71% (95% confidence interval 66-77%).<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Combining milestones at different ages provided a concise tool that could help to detect children with SLI at a young age.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE acquisition; SPECIFIC language impairment in children; CHILDREN'S health; CHILD development; DEAFNESS; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; WORD deafness; EVALUATION research; PREDICTIVE tests; CASE-control method
- Publication
Acta Paediatrica, 2018, Vol 107, Issue 12, p2125
- ISSN
0803-5253
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/apa.14596