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Early language screening in City and Hackney: work in progress
Author(s) -
DIXON JANE,
KOT ANNE,
LAW JAMES
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1988.tb00576.x
Subject(s) - warrant , relevance (law) , work (physics) , language development , psychology , school district , environmental health , medicine , medical education , public relations , nursing , developmental psychology , pedagogy , political science , business , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , finance
Summary The paper describes the initial stages in the development of a screening instrument designed to identify children with impaired language development at the age of 21/2 years. The pilot study comprised 40 children seen for routine developmental surveillance at one of the Community Health Centres in City and Hackney District Health Authority. The screen was found to be both sufficiently sensitive and sufficiently specific to warrant further investigation. The discussion highlights a number of pertinent issues which have arisen from the study and which the authors consider to be of relevance to others considering the development of equivalent procedures.