Identifying milestones in language development for young children ages 1 to 6 years

Margot I. Visser-Bochane; Sijmen A. Reijneveld; Wim P. Krijnen; Cees P. van der Schans; Margreet R. Luinge

doi:10.1016/j.acap.2019.07.003

Identifying milestones in language development for young children ages 1 to 6 years

Margot I. Visser-Bochane, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Wim P. Krijnen, Cees P. van der Schans, Margreet R. Luinge

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Afdeling Gezondheidswetenschappen

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OBJECTIVE: Language development is important for children's success in life. Therefore, language is monitored by child health care professionals and parents, but a uniform set of milestones in language development is lacking. Our aim was to identify a set of clear and distinctive milestones that empirically reflect language development in children aged 1 to 6 years of age.

METHODS: We obtained a community-based sample of 1381 parents reporting on milestones derived from clinical signs and currently used language screening instruments. We used nonparametric Item Response Theory analysis to identify milestones belonging to one unidimensional scale.

RESULTS: Twenty-six milestones were excellently scalable (item H coefficients 0.62-0.90) and formed a strong scale (total H coefficient 0.83). The final set of identified milestones covered vocabulary, grammar, and communication, with an item ordering that holds for all children.

CONCLUSIONS: This unidimensional set of 26 clear and distinctive milestones reflects language development in young children and can be used as an instrument to monitor language development.

Originele taal-2	English
Pagina's (van-tot)	421-429
Tijdschrift	Academic Pediatrics
Volume	20
Nummer van het tijdschrift	3
Vroegere onlinedatum	12 jul. 2019
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2019.07.003
Status	Published - apr. 2020

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taalontwikkeling
kinderen

Research Focus Areas Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Healthy Ageing

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Kwetsbaarheid en passende zorg

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Identifying milestones in language development for young children ages 1 to 6 years

Samenvatting

Keywords

Research Focus Areas Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Research Focus Areas Research Centre or Centre of Expertise

Publinova thema's

Toegang tot document

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Onderzoekersoutput

Signaleren van taalproblemen bij jonge kinderen in de jeugdgezondheidszorg

Uniform screening for atypical language development in Dutch child health care

Activiteiten

Signaleren van problemen in de taalontwikkeling – Werkveldbijeenkomst

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