Speech And Language Development

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DEVELOPMENT OF QUICK SPEECH AND LANGUAGE SCREENING TEST IN MARATHI LANGUAGE Introduction:
Speech and language development is considered as a useful indicator of a child’s overall development and cognitive ability by researchers and is related to school success. Speech and Language disorders are the most commonly seen in childhood disabilities and affect about 1 in 12 children or 5% to 8% of preschool children (U.S. Preventive Services Task Force 2006). Indian Census 2011 reported out of the 121 Crore population, about 2.68 Crore persons are ‘disabled’. Speech and Hearing disorder reported nearly 26 % of total disabled population in India by NSSO (2011).Speech and Language disorder in the developmental period causes significant behavioural …show more content…

The items were selected from the kinder garden junior and senior books. Pictures of all the items were selected. The selected items of word list was given to 38 parents or caregivers of children aged 2- 3 years to mark familiarity on the three-point rating scale to check whether words are within the vocabulary of these children.
Similarly, to avoid parental bias, the researchers had assessed informally the verbal reception of the test items on an individual basis. Picture identification task was used to check the verbal reception. Finally, test stimulus items were formed by considering both scores, i.e. on parent familiarity checked and receptive vocabulary assessment scores. Most familiar words were selected to form test items.
Second Phase: A pilot study was conducted in the second phase, which involved 18 childrens between age range of 3 - 6 years. The necessary changes were incorporated based on the pilot study …show more content…

In the field testing, 42 children were recruited of age range 3-6 with the mean age of 4.56. The group was further divided into the three sub-groups that is 3-4years, 4-5 years, 5-6 years. The normative score was obtained in each age group.In typical group 3-4 years, obtained score was significantly lower than other groups. Validation group that is 12 children out of which 6 children were having misarticulation, 1 cleft lip and palate, 1 stuttering, and 4 children with delayed speech and language. The screening tool correctly discriminated high probability area of disorder i.e. language disorder, articulation, and voice disorders.The test-retest reliability ranged from 0.68 for language disorder section,0.76 for articulation disorder section, and 0.65 for other disorders(used

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