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A Study of Language Development in a Sample of 3 year old Children
Author(s) -
RANDALL DIANA,
REYNELL JOAN,
CURWEN MICHAEL
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682827409011603
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , language development , language disorder , comprehension , language delay , attendance , communication disorder , linguistics , cognition , philosophy , neuroscience , economics , economic growth
Summary A small study was set up to investigate the prevalence of delayed language development in an urban sample of 3 year old children. Verbal comprehension, expressive language, articulation and intelligibility were assessed. Children from immigrant families performed particularly poorly on the assessment scales, and were not included in the subsequent analysis. In the remaining sample of 160 children, no child was found to have a severe developmental language disorder, and only one with a significant specific language delay which was still present at the age of 4 years. The sample was too small for a study of the prevalence of severe developmental language disorder, but some interesting suggestions emerged in relation to the effects of social grade, size of family and attendance at nursery school. Good language performance seemed to be related to a complex of high social grade, small family, and attendance at nursery school.