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CLASSIFICATION OF DYSPRAXIA IN HEARING‐IMPAIRED CHILDREN USING THEQ‐TECHNIQUE OF FACTOR ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Aplin D. Y.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1987.tb00225.x
Subject(s) - psychology , audiology , developmental psychology , factor (programming language) , medicine , computer science , programming language
Identification of hearing‐impaired children with the additional language‐learning difficulty of dyspraxia, defined by Van Uden(1981, 1983), is explored. Results from 12 diagnostic sublets obtained by Van Uden's sample of profoundly deaf children and a Manchester sample with wider ranges of age and hearing loss were analysed by the Q‐technique of fatter analysis. Comparison of Q profiles revealed a dyspraxic/eupraxic profile for Van Uden's sample, but a linguistic/non‐linguistic profile for the Manchester Sample. Two Manchester children who fulfilled the specified criteria and showed the dyspraxic profile had no known additional language‐learning difficulties. Usefulness of the Q‐technique for the profile analysis of hearing‐unpaired children is discussed, and comparisons made with the results from cluster analyses.