Can severely language delayed 3-year-olds be identified at 18 months? Evaluation of a screening version of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 237-247

  Westerlund, Monica ^a   Berglund, Eva ^b   Eriksson, Mårten ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CDI; Child health care; Early language screening; Language delay; Parental report

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRODUCTIVITY; PSYCHOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SWEDEN; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD RECOGNITION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LANGUAGE TEST; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; ROC CURVE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SWEDEN;

EID: 33747835643     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2006/020)     Document Type: Article

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