Concurrent and Predictive Validity of Parent Reports of Child Language at Ages 2 and 3 Years

Feldman, Heidi M.; Dale, Philip S.; Campbell, Thomas F.; Colborn, D. Kathleen; Kurs‐Lasky, Marcia; Rockette, Howard E.; Paradise, Jack L.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00882.x

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“…Parental self-report is generally a good measure of early expressive vocabulary, especially for severe language delay. 11,12 The validity of the language grammar rating scale has been described earlier by Roth et al 13 …”

Section: Measure Of Language Competencementioning

confidence: 87%

Prenatal exposure to antidepressants and language competence at age three: results from a large population‐based pregnancy cohort in Norway

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Selmer

Roth

et al. 2014

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Objective To examine the association between maternal use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) in pregnancy and language competence in their children at age three taking into account maternal symptoms of anxiety and depression.Design Population-based prospective pregnancy cohort study.Setting The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study; recruited pregnant women from 1999 through 2008.Population 45 266 women with 51 748 singleton pregnancies.Methods The association between short-or long-term use of SSRI during pregnancy and language competence in the child was investigated using multinomial logistic regression with three outcome categories: long, complicated sentences, fairly complete sentences and language delay.Main outcome measures Children's language competence at age three measured by maternal report on a validated language grammar scale.Results Women reported use of SSRI in 386 (0.7%) pregnancies. Of these, 161 (42%) reported long-term use. Compared with children whose mothers took no SSRI, using the best language category as the reference, adjusted relative risk ratios (RRR) of having fairly complete sentences were 1.21 (95% CI 0.85-1.72) and 2.28 (1.54-3.38) for short-and long-term SSRI use, respectively. The adjusted RRRs of language delay were 0.86 (0.42-1.76) and 2.30 (1.21-4.37). Symptoms of anxiety and depression in pregnancy were independently related to language delay, adjusted RRR 1.25 (1.03-1.50) and 1.83 (1.40-2.40) for short-and long-term symptoms, respectively.Conclusions Prolonged use of SSRI during pregnancy was associated with lower language competence in children by age three independently of depression. Having symptoms of depression throughout pregnancy had an independent effect.

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confidence: 87%

Prenatal exposure to antidepressants and language competence at age three: results from a large population‐based pregnancy cohort in Norway

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Selmer

Roth

et al. 2014

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“…13,14 To check whether this applied within our study sample, we used a subsample of 425 children. These children were administered in-depth assessments as part of an ongoing case-control study of autism spectrum disorders nested within the MoBa cohort, 15 in which screen-positive potential cases and control children are assessed shortly after completion of the age 3 years questionnaire.…”

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Folic Acid Supplements in Pregnancy and Severe Language Delay in Children

Roth

Magnus

Schjølberg

et al. 2012

Obstetrical &Amp; Gynecological Survey

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Context-Prenatal folic acid supplements reduce the risk of neural tube defects and may have beneficial effects on other aspects of neurodevelopment.Objective-To examine associations between mothers' use of prenatal folic acid supplements and risk of severe language delay in their children at age 3 years. Online-Only Material: The 9 eTables and eFigure are available at http://www.jama.com.Additional Contributions: Caroline Relton, PhD (Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University), provided critical comments to the manuscript and Eivind Ystrøm, PhD (Department of Adult Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health), provided assistance with the breastfeeding data. Neither received any compensation from a funding sponsor for their contributions. The donations of questionnaire data and biological material from MoBa participants are gratefully acknowledged. We thank investigators at Columbia University, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health for access to data from the Autism Birth Cohort Study (NS-U01NS047537). NIH Public Access Methods Study PopulationMoBa is a prospective pregnancy cohort that has been described in detail elsewhere. 10 Pregnant women from Norway were recruited to the study through a postal invitation in connection with the routine ultrasound examination offered to all pregnant women at their local hospital around gestational week17.During the period of recruitment between 1999 and December 2008, 108 841 pregnant women enrolled in the study, with a participation rate of 38.5% (http://www.fhi.no/moba-en). Written informed consent was obtained from each participant and the study was approved by the Regional Committee for Medical Research and the Norwegian Data Inspectorate.The data collection during pregnancy and at birth included self-report questionnaires and biological samples from the mother, father, and child. Follow-up after birth is ongoing and designed to be long term. Up to age 3 years, follow-up included questionnaires periodically sent to mothers for the entire sample. We used the quality ensured Data Version 5 released by MoBa in 2010. Included in this study were 44 220 children born before 2008 for whom the age 3 years questionnaire had been returned by the mother by June 16, 2010, and Measure of Severe Language DelayThe present analysis of age 3 years outcomes focuses on severe language delay. Although a rare outcome, it has clinical significance and is associated with a range of neurodevelopmental disorders. 11 In a corollary analysis, we also examined moderate language delay at age 3 years, an outcome that is less readily interpretable, because many children with moderate language delay will later catch up with their peers. 12On a language grammar rating scale 13 in the age 3 years questionnaire, the mother was asked to choose 1 of 6 categories, ranging from no word production to full sentences with complete grammatical markings. Children whose mothers reported minimal expressive language (only ...

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“…However, because verbal abilities are a crucial component of cognitive abilities and intelligence (16) , parents were asked to complete an assessment of children's verbal and communicative skills in addition to the PARCA3. The verbal abilities assessment tool was the shortened British version of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory-III (CDI-III (17) ) .…”

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Parent ratings of child cognition and language compared with Bayley-III in preterm 3-year-olds

Perra

McGowan

Grunau

et al. 2015

Early Human Development

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Concurrent and Predictive Validity of Parent Reports of Child Language at Ages 2 and 3 Years

Cited by 266 publications

References 51 publications

Prenatal exposure to antidepressants and language competence at age three: results from a large population‐based pregnancy cohort in Norway

Prenatal exposure to antidepressants and language competence at age three: results from a large population‐based pregnancy cohort in Norway

Folic Acid Supplements in Pregnancy and Severe Language Delay in Children

Parent ratings of child cognition and language compared with Bayley-III in preterm 3-year-olds

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